Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDGAR H. LEONI New York City...
...hundred nations, the name Hoover suggests not J. Edgar or Herbert but a vacuum cleaner, and some people use it as a verb as well as a noun. Ohio's 55-year-old Hoover Co., the world's oldest and biggest vacuum-cleaner maker, nowadays is concerned with more than merely cleaning carpets. While vacuums will bring half of this year's expected worldwide sales of $200 million (up 21% from last year), Hoover plants from Australia to Wales have also begun to turn out electric can openers, hair dryers, heaters, washing machines, floor polishers. Driving this...
...subliminal Sonic Support Apparatus Mark II, a miniaturized tape recorder designed to reassure the businessman by playing back the speeches of some hero figure to whom he turns mentally for inspiration in moments of insecurity. Among other "Sustaining Presences," the doctor found that Barry Goldwater, the Hoovers (J. Edgar and Herbert), the late Senator Robert A. Taft and Commodore Vanderbilt proved highly effective on different businessmen...
...bucolically idyllic, 2) they stunt, thwart and twist people's lives, 3) they harbor an incredible amount of sexual hanky-panky behind their primly drawn curtains. If any one book by any one man may be said to have fostered these notions, it is Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, which first appeared in 1915. Masters, who died in 1950 at the age of 81, was a Chicago lawyer-turned-poet who had grown up in Petersburg and Lewistown, 111. In Masters' book, 244 small-town dead speak their autobiographical epitaphs in free verse. Spoon River Anthology...
...retard a rhythm or invite a second thought, he serves up a fade so slow it seems like a memory. To enrich his theme and variegate his texture, he abruptly interjects a two-minute "quote" from another movie and later for the same reasons rabbets in some paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe. To check and jumble the flow of the story, he chops it into twelve curt chapters, each labeled like a folder in a file...