Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some things to be pleased about. The polls show 63% approval, and "Middle America" still seems to be in tune with him. Liberals in both parties, on the other hand, have begun to question his performance-though he has surely done better than they predicted before his election. In fact, his achievement record is mixed. On the plus side are foreign affairs, the direction set on Viet Nam, economic policy and an important psychological factor: the credibility gap that haunted Lyndon Johnson has been closed by Nixon. On the minus side is his lack of real leadership in the deepening...
...years before World War I, Tanner developed a special technique of applying his paint in thin, linseed-oil glazes. He began employing a gemlike palette heavily laced with blues and aquamarines. Many of the works done in this later style have cracked and flaked. But some few among them-notably the serenely moonlit Abraham's Oak -still show how Tanner could take a simple Biblical tale and use it to inspire a unique poetic vision...
...labor costs per unit of output are climbing steadily. Manufacturers are compensating by raising the prices of their products. Thus, even large pay raises have yielded little if anything in added purchasing power. During the last three years, in fact, the purchasing power of the average U.S. worker has done no better than hold steady. Union leaders now feel that they must push for giant wage and benefit increases to keep their members ahead of price boosts. But some are aware that the raises may only give the inflationary spiral a further upward twist. Says Phil Stack, a New York...
...were created by Gehnrich President Marvin Weinberg, who majored at City College of New York in comparative literature. Carl Ally, whose Northeast and Hertz ads were borrowed, admits that he has done some copying himself. After Young & Rubicam initiated Eastern Air Lines' "We want everyone to fly," Ally produced a new twist for Northeast: "We want everyone to fly-with...
This is what French Novelist Michel Tournier has done. The beautifully translated result, though, is far more than a Cartesian blueprint fleshed into creaky fiction. Like Crusoe I, but more elaborately in Tournier's version, Crusoe II shakes off despondency by creating a makeshift England, complete with fertile fields, full storehouses, a church, a fortress and an elaborate code of law and punishment with which to govern himself...