Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kaysen is less willing to talk about affairs in the Big World outside the Institute's green fields. There one must be careful of the Government, of one's reputation--and Kaysen sticks to his position as an economist. From an economic standpoint, he says, the country can easily support the war. Although to do so, he amends, it must "take a lot of resources which could much better be used on other things. The situation looks in a very critical shape...
...regulate their business with a code of ethics. He is its most important nonmember. He advertises the services of his 30-man staff, and he charges a fee for reading manuscripts-two functions frowned upon by the S.A.R. Meredith can afford the frowns. His stable includes Norman Mailer, Gerald Green, Ellery Queen, Mickey Spillane and Meyer Levin, and he sells about 6,000 "properties" every year...
...inversion of the author's own experiences as a youth in Montreal's intensively competitive Jewish enclave. Says Richler: "Our mothers read us stories from magazines about astigmatic 14-year-olds who had already graduated from Harvard. And reading Tip Top Comics or listening to The Green Hornet on the radio was as good as asking for a whack on the head-sometimes administered with a rolledup copy of the Jewish Eagle, as if that in itself would be nourishing. I was brought up on the idea that it was hard...
...speed and deliberation gives the dream that jagged pace which we recall in first waking moments. Desire, I have argued, has speed. Within each scene, however, Hunter achieves slowness by letting the camera, as if two joints high, revel in the immediate, fix joyfully on shapes, colors, a green stick of incense, a miniature toy horse on wheels, the rise of bubbles in near boiling water...
Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of the Board of Time Magazine, said last night that the Time-Life Corporation will "certainly keep an eye on" the Times-Lampoon case. "If the Times wins this suit," Heiskell said, "it will give us the green-light for action against the Lampoon parody...