Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Challenge Is the Thing. What do the recruiters offer that captures so many executives? Not salary, most executives agree-though the promise of fat stock options in the new job often helps. The real clincher, however, is most often the prospect of greater challenge. "I was delighted with my old job," says United Fruit President Sunderland, who was en ticed away from a vice-presidency at Standard Oil of Indiana. United Fruit's difficulties were what excited him. "I knew there would be great personal satisfaction in straightening those problems...
Discount on Wall Street. Businessmen were not quite so happy at the consumer's tightfistedness. Builders saw little to cheer about in the fact that housing starts declined 2% in August. And though manufacturers' sales of consumer durables rose 1%, no fat backlog of unfilled orders was developing. One reason seemed to be that producers were delivering promptly because they still had plenty of unused plant. Excess capacity and intense competition served also as an inflationary brake, as was demonstrated last week when Aluminum Co. of America felt obliged to cut its basic ingot prices from...
...Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...
...Just a Little More, an enormously fat old widower dines with his son and daughter-in-law and reminisces about his life while greedily wolfing down food ("Don't give me any more. I don't mind a couple of slices-well, just another. And some fat. I like a piece of fat. That's what I feel"). Through a long, meandering life, it becomes clear to the reader, food has been the old man's only passion. The Key to My Heart describes a young tradesman's attempt to close out an account with...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...