Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to believe that popular music will ever stumble back into such poetic quagmires as "Who put the bomp in the bomp-ba bomp-pa bomp? Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam a-ding-dong?" or the 50-odd repetitions of sha-da-da-da-da in the song called Get a Job. Boston Disk Jockey Steve Seagull thinks that the new interest is a short-time summer thing that has something to do with this primitivism. According to Seagull, "Rock 'n' roll is perfect beach music-like it just says 'pizza stand, convertible...
...authors. ("Meet Melvin Corby" reads the blurb next to Aronson's picture, "faithful, frustrated, he canceled his men's magazines when Naked Came the Stranger.") Paperback rights have been sold to Dell for a $37,500 minimum (escalating to a possible $127,500 depending on hard-cover sales), and Stuart reports no fewer than 23 producers and directors interested in the film rights...
Under the High Wire. Older businessmen-who grew up in the Depression, fought in World War II and went to college on the G.I. Bill-have to run hard to keep up. "Many older men feel that techniques have passed them by," says Dr. Russell Cansler, director of placement at North western's Graduate School of Business Administration. "They see promotions and raises they want going to men ten or 15 years their junior." In an effort to acquire the new computer-oriented management skills that are being so highly rewarded, older executives are enrolling in business school. More...
...ship's master on one of his father's two freighters before he took over in 1959. "I bought my first ship with my father's good name as the only guarantee, but that was enough," he says. With that kind of credit, plus hard work and luck, he has built up a fleet of 600,000 tons. He takes pride in knowing by name all the crewmen on his 20 ships...
...same sort of thing is happening to Ross Macdonald, a mystery-story writer of the hard-boiled Southern California school. The Goodbye Look is his 20th book, and it is on bestseller lists -a place where hard-cover mysteries are not often found. In the past few years, critical opinion has been massing behind Macdonald to push him past Dashiell Hammett and especially Raymond Chandler, whose style and settings have clearly influenced him. William Goldman calls Macdonald's mysteries "the finest ever written by an American." Other critics number him among the important novelists of our time, full...