Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master of the toast, and he gives them in rapid-fire succession. Each new fill of the wine glasses, which are enormous crystal ballons of the sort normally seen only at the swankiest restaurants, brings an invocation of 'Hei, hei,' a friendly salutation which Fielding has borrowed from the hard-drinking Finns. Old anecdotes are dredged up and embellished until they sink again?about the day that Prince Albert and Princess Paola of Belgium visited the villa for skeet shooting and the time that a U.S. Navy admiral suddenly and inexplicably vanished in the middle of a Fielding party...
Some people find all this hard to take. But most of Fielding's readers, who sense this atmosphere in the Guide, seem to like it because it gives them a feeling of clubbiness. Sophisticated travelers?or those who would like to seem sophisticated?would rather be caught in the Lido nightclub in Paris than be seen carrying Fielding's Guide (some leave it in the hotel room or carry it with a plain brown wrapper). As American tourists become more experienced, as travel becomes ever more natural and casual, Fielding will have to change or lose his popularity. But right...
Pointed out to him, such errors offend not only Fielding's sense of professionalism but a sort of noblesse oblige which he works hard to maintain. A product of prep schools, Princeton and genial genealogy, Fielding is descended on his father's side from Novelist Henry Fielding, related on his mother's to Naturalist William Temple Hornaday. After a brief postgraduate career as a mutual funds salesman, Temp turned to the typewriter and sold his first article to the Reader's Digest in 1940. He was then called into the Army and sent to Fort Bragg, N.C., where his commanding...
Bitter Beginnings. Times were not always so good for Johnny, fourth of the seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes...
...Federal Reserve has been fighting inflation in much the same way so far in 1969, but until now the results have been less severe. Last week the board's policy of "resolute restraint," as Chairman William McChesney Martin describes it, hit home so hard that many bankers concluded that another crisis is imminent. "This is certainly the worst credit squeeze since 1966," said Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "The question is whether it will get as bad as 1966. We're moving very rapidly in that direction...