Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thorny Challenge. But the grey outcome of the steel strike leaves a deep, dark question unanswered: How can the U.S. make the reality of Big Union power fit in with the other realities of the U.S. economy in the 19605? During the 1950s, Big Union power became a chronic source of cost-pushed price upcreep. Despite McDonald's public relations triumph over steel, the nation is still tired of that upcreep and is groping for ways of halting it. And ahead looms the newer, more urgent problem of competition from the rebuilt industries of Western Europe and Japan...
...really satirizing a place. My novels deal with a frame of mind and a certain social strata. A female satirist has a difficult row to hoe, because if you are too nasty, people think you are a five-letter word. Actually, I'm terribly torn as to where I fit in. There is an affirmative side to all my novels; I guess it's my Puritan tradition which makes my novels point a moral. Some people think I should do straight satire and are disappointed that the novels have this other aspect...
Plans to take the show to New Haven are still indefinite. Ritchie would prefer not to produce ODPB as part of the Yale Drama Festival because this would force an elimination of scenery and curtailment of the script to fit into the one-hour time limit...
...Fit as a fiddle," comes the answer in a pleasant cross between a Maine and a Montreal accent that suggests the machine has done some travelling...
...Mboya happened to be built up as an African nationalist leader," explained Labor Official John Tettegah. "Now Mboya has become so conceited he thinks he is God and the world is his." Added N. A. Welbeck, Nkrumah's Minister with Special Duties: "Mboya is an imp not fit to lick Nkrumah's boots . . . Nkrumah is a consuming fire. Anybody who tries to destroy him will be destroyed first." Everyone knows, concluded Party Secretary Adamafio, that "Nkrumah is a superman, master and god on his own scene. America had its Lincoln, Russia its Lenin, Britain its Nelson. Nkrumah...