Word: fabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to relive those glory days in a movie theater? Then go straight to a revival of The Girl Can't Help It or The T.A.M.I. Show, because The Idolmaker is something else, and less. I recalls one withered branch of pop nostalgia: the South Philly sound of Fabian and Frankie Avalon, which is to genuine early rock as Fritos are to grits. Frankie sang of Dede Dinah and sounded like the revenge of the adenoids. Fabian, legend has it, could sing on key only on alternate Thursdays, and his records were said to be creative sutures of dozens...
...protests and demonstrations. Lippmann's Jewish heritage barred his entrance to most college groups and organizations. The Crimson blackballed him. But Lippmann gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature. He gained acceptance to the narrow circle of Harvard's academic elite: the favorite student of George Santayana, he was also on intimate terms with William James...
POLAROID SAW IT. So did Abbie Hoffman. And Roone Arledge capitalized on it, as did Fabian, John F. Kennedy, Walt Disney and thousands of farmers in the hills of Colombia...
...business research group, last week also reported a sharp increase in consumer confidence. The monthly survey of 5,000 households had been declining steadily since November 1979, and it hit bottom in May, when only 42.1% felt optimistic about current business conditions and the future of the economy. But Fabian Linden, the director of the survey, reports: "There was a rather marked and surprising increase in consumer spirits beginning in June, and that was repeated more dramatically in July." In those two months, the index spurted 16 points...
...enterprise-zone concept originated in Britain through an unusual alliance of the left and the right. Peter Hall, former chairman of the socialist Fabian Society, wrote a pamphlet that inspired Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, to urge that it be tried. Despite strong opposition from the Labor Party, the Conservative government in April provided about $70 million for six enterprise districts in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...