Word: establishmentism
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Investors also like the industry's new Establishment cred. The old model of buying an overstaffed, underleveraged company, stripping it of cash and slashing jobs and expenses simply doesn't work as well now that corporate America has learned to downsize itself. Competition from abroad keeps companies on their toes...
ON THE CHARLES RIVER—My favorite short story from my favorite author takes place on a bench on the Charles’ shore. I sought to experience summer genuinely. Sitting on a—the—bench, I took a break from editing others’ words...
In his self-assessment, Spillane - whose The Long Wait sold three million copies in a single week, and whose worldwide total is in the 140-million range - was also far more blue-collar than tweed-jacket. He wasn't an "author," he said, rejecting the mustiness of the word; he...
The difference is that, in the late '40s and early '50s, mainstream culture was still defined by the standards of good taste, whatever that is. Usually it meant congratulating a work of fiction for its modernist notions and humanist politics. That wouldn't fit Spillane at all; his novels were...
To centralize and streamline these efforts, the report also called for the establishment of a 12-person committee to oversee and partially fund interdisciplinary science research at Harvard.