Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First: We quite often forget now the belt-tightening period in 1960, when we had to initiate a no-hire-no-fire policy to cut the fat from municipal operations. We re-organized a number of city departments over the 8 years; we combined the Health and Hospital Departments which has set an example for America, an example which has now been emulated in half a dozen cities; we created the new Public Facilities Department (this I think is one of the most significant reorganizations we have made); and we reorganized the Assessing Department. We made a number of other...
After seven fat years, the greatest danger confronting the U.S. economy is not seven lean ones. Warned Lyndon Johnson last week in his annual Economic Report to Congress: "The pace now is-and in the months ahead will be-too fast for safety." Agreed the President's Council of Economic Advisers in a supporting statement: "Whatever additional gains in output and employment might be obtained during the inflationary boom would be paid for many times over in a subsequent bust...
...call-up, Kosygin let it be known that the Kremlin's top leadership is more interested in a settlement than its underlings had let on. Kosygin's aides even hinted that perhaps the best way off the hook would be for the U.S. to pay a fat fine for its supposed violation of North Korean waters-as Russian trawlers had to do after being nabbed within U.S. territorial limits off Alaska last March...
...apparent that the glue of their domestic relationship is mutual need. That is reflected in the acting of Wallach and O'Shea, who are matchlessly mated to their roles. Exquisitely coiffed, Wallach is superbly narcissistic, as if he were modeling for an effete art agency. Fat, defensive, submissive, O'Shea would appear to have the lesser part, but he proves himself the better actor in creating an image of a patient, badgered man too good to be untrue to his bullying friend...
...pity is that inside this bad fat novel, a good thin novel is signaling wildly to get out. Behind its mythic pretensions to be a fire-and-water purification ritual, Milkbottle H has the first-rate makings of an old-fashioned Jewish family story. If only he could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday...