Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line expatriates live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even eggs), clip coupons or live on fat inheritances. A few are reportedly involved in genuine cloak-and-dagger plotting under the command of Yuri N. Paparov, who is cultural attaché of the suspiciously oversized (200 staff members...
...sexes, whether it's a one-story or a two-story home, what their religious preference is. How much laundry do they send out? Do they have pets? What does the employer mean by a day off? What type of cooking do they expect? How often do they entertain? When do they serve dinner?" If the client boggles, says Mrs. Heinke, "I simply tell her, 'If I don't ask you, the employee will...
Even by Philippine standards, it had been quite a convention. Garcia's task force took over the fancier Dewey Boulevard's nightclubs to entertain the delegates. Everything, including the samba-happy hostesses, was on the house. Delegates were met at airports, bus and rail stations by Garcia men who eagerly pressed a little convention spending money (from about $150 to $250, depending on the delegate, said Garcia's opponents) into their hands, guided them off forthwith to Dewey Boulevard...
Surely Edward R. Murrow's reflection [TIME, July 15], "If television and radio are to be used to entertain all of the people all of the time, we have come perilously close to discovering the real opiate of the people," is coincidental to Carl Sandburg's statement [TIME, June 17], "When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people...
...might be helpful," said Murrow, "if those who control television and radio would sit still for a bit and attempt to discover what it is they care about. If television and radio are to be used to entertain all of the people all of the time, then we have come perilously close to discovering the real opiate of the people...