Word: dexterity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of platinum-plated recession many economists see was well described by Dexter Keezer of McGraw-Hill. He expects that 1961 will actually show a healthy increase in overall economic activity as measured by the gross national product; he estimates that G.N.P. will drop to $502 billion in 1961's first quarter, then turn around to $507 billion in the second quarter, rise to $522 billion in the third. He looks for a drop in the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production from its present 107 to about 100 in 1961's second quarter - with...
...TIMOTHY DEXTER REVISITED (306 pp.) -John P. Marquand-Little, Brown...
...place that was never long out of his thoughts in fact or in fiction. In 1925, before he had written anything better than hack historicals, he dusted off some old documents, ran down some dubious legends and wrote a book about a fascinating 18th century eccentric, Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass. Marquand was never satisfied with the effort. Now, 35 years later, Timothy Dexter Revisited gives a curious old codger...
...fast slipping its Puritan chains. The rich, the decent and the God fearing still ran things, but there was plenty of heavy drinking, and sons of the well-to-do liked to prove their nonchalance by slipping a hundred-dollar bill into a sandwich and eating it. Poor Timothy Dexter wanted desperately to break into the upper crust, but he hadn't a prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead of a lowly leather dresser, he was still...
Author Marquand's feelings about Lord Timothy are mixed. He grudgingly admires some qualities in a self-made Yankee who wasn't as silly as he seemed. But he admits that Dexter "suffered from senile concupiscence, he was ill-educated, and he was vulgar when drunk or sober." He sees him as a caricature of his period, but his dubious hero gives him a chance to revisit a time and a way of life that Marquand found more gracious and attractive than the "five o'clock shadow of mediocrity" that is creeping over Newburyport. It was only...