Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European liberalism, they rebelled and deserted family business for the law or the arts. They were even determined to look as little as possible like their hearty fathers. They cultivated ill health and the appearance, writes Freyre, of the "conventional Jesus of the Crucifixion." It became the fashion to die young. "To die old was for the bourgeoisie, for the rich planters, for the obese vicars, for the favorite plantation slaves. 'Geniuses' died young and, if possible, of tuberculosis...
...with noble names. The names are particularly in demand as public relations men. "I do like snobs," exclaims one princely P.R. man. "They are all so kind to one!" Two of West Germany's ablest journalists are titled: Countess Marion Donhoff, political editor of Hamburg's weekly Die Zeit, and Count Hans Werner Finck von Finckenstein, a correspondent for Die Welt. Says one corporate count: "All you need to get ahead in industry is reasonably good looks, self-assurance and organizational talent. This the nobility had, and now the young ones are all fat people in their firms...
...from "continuing military rebellion" to arson, torture and execution of anti-Republicans by the Chekas 25 years ago. The maximum penalty was death. Did he care to say something before sentence was passed? "Only this," replied Grimau. "Since 1936, I have lived the life of a Communist. I will die a Communist...
Cliches prove such sturdy soldiers that they die hard. Now that "high-level stagnation," used to describe the recent listlessness of the U.S. economy, no longer fits, a Manhattan economist has diagnosed "high-level stagnation with an upward trend." Things are better than that. After months of being prodded, decried and even despaired of, the U.S. economy seems once more to be on the go. "The economy has finally formed a base from which it can move upwards with confidence," says Wells Fargo Bank President Ransom Cook, whose own bank less than a month ago expressed no such confidence...
...brawl that is becoming global, the Europeans also accuse the Japanese of dumping steel in the Common Market. The Europeans have quietly made a cartel-like agreement to set prices of exports and carve up world markets-but so have the Japanese. Last week West Germany's Die Welt reported that the Common Marketeers and the Japanese, united at least in anger at U.S. antidumping charges, may yet combine into one great steel cartel to battle...