Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of Carter advisers, notably Arthur Okun and Charles Schultze of the Brookings Institution, argue persuasively that inflation could be lowered by a "social contract" among Government, business and labor. One formula: the Government would promise workers an increase in real incomes if pace-setting unions agreed to hold wage raises below a certain level. If they did, but price rises continued to eat into wage gains, the Government would cut taxes so that incomes would still go up. Organized labor has ignored or rejected such proposals before. But Schultze thinks that unions could now be persuaded to cooperate...
...exemption from $750 to $1,000. One-quarter of the cut would go to corporations, whose rates would be reduced from 48% to 46% on profits, helping them to accumulate capital for needed investment. But the President usually neglects to mention that taxes would be cut, by his own formula, only if Congress reduced spending by a like amount, which is most improbable...
Somehow it works, Savannah's zany blend of romance, dress-up and the late late show. The songs are mostly about love. But August Darnell's lyrics, shaped by Singer Cory Daye's sweet husky alto, extend beyond the "boogie down" formula. Cherchez la Femme tells the story of a man who takes two jobs to spring his girl from debt, only to have her seek solace elsewhere while he is gone...
That's the formula for a real heartbreaker, and that's exactly what the Radcliffe field hockey team got on Saturday, a 1-0 loss on a freak goal that might well hold up as the only blot on an otherwise marvelous season...
...unsophisticated youth meets a glamorous, mysterious stranger, and Learns Something About Life. It is an endlessly employed formula that has generated such high and low art as The Great Gatsby and Auntie Mame. This first novel, The End of the Party, by Marvin Barrett, is yet another variation on the same theme. Here, the part of the glittering mentor is played by Dexter Hillyer, a Midwestern-born artist who rose to fame in the 1920s as a chic illustrator. Hillyer is seen through the few but vivid memories of his godson Emerson Mercer. The stages of his life are marked...