Word: formful
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Horrible Specter. Dr. Richard I. Evans, a University of Houston social psychologist, suggests that not owning a television set has become "a reverse status symbol. What these people are actually engaging in is a form of snobbery." Chaytor Mason, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, agrees and adds a few additional non-TV types to the list: "the high-button-shoes, who have refused to change over from radio," the "active personalities like Harriet Housewife, who have too much to do or can't sit still," and the across-the-board mavericks, who just have...
Some people seem to forgo TV as a form of personal protest-against society, the 20th century or the erosion of their privacy. Manhattan Architect John Keane, 28, considers TV "depressing to have around. Lots of people I know don't have television sets, but they also don't have telephones." Others ignore TV because they are afraid of getting hooked. Mrs. Jay Sheveloff. 30, of Boston, has seen the "horrible" specter of her in-laws watching continually; she refuses to have TV around -at least until her husband finishes his Ph.D. A number of nonowners ascribe their...
...defender of such moves despite the Reserve Board's qualms, Camp argues that banks should be free to per form "any financial function that does not impair their solvency or liquidity." Fitting their plans to that prescription, bankers insist that because of their customers' changing needs they should have the power to offer more services related to banking. They envision affiliates for such activities as travel services, mutual funds, insurance, equipment leasing, bookkeeping and billing for other firms, and land development...
...Sign of Letup. Natural gas has been piped from the gulf since 1937, and estimates are that the area harbors some 79 trillion cubic feet of gas or about one-fourth of the total U.S. reserves. The pipelaying splurge began sometime last year when natural-gas companies, who form the nation's sixth largest industry, found demand outpacing supply. Then came a fillip from the Federal Power Commission in Washington. Ruling that the gas companies should bring the Louisiana deposits ashore individually, the FPC scotched the plans of a large group of 30 oil companies headed by Shell...
Lefty's Fury. Plimpton spends his nights talking over golf lore with other tour members and reads an extensive list of golf books, all of which only confuse him more but give the reader comic insights into this special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown...