Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition did not grow from the soil. It was simply laid on the newly-discovered ground with the hope that it would take root. Mean- while, the kingdoms of production- Iron and steel among them- dug into the dirt and took over the garden like weeds. American business became extremely pragmatic, and consequently could no longer find purpose in the tradition...
...cast iron Greek columns that are displayed in the exhibit, America's real values began to take root insidiously. Corporate pragmatism was about to usurp the throne...
...chairman of the finance committee was H. Stuart Harrison. Mrs. Harrison is also chairman of the board of Cleveland-Cliffe Iron Co. Over 1400 people attended the dinner that night, and at $250 a throw, that meant more than a quarter million dollars was raised...
...controlled congressman from Queens hoping to be taken for a Southern Senator." Fat lecture invitations are as available as women anxious to add a famous notch to their bedposts. In the three funniest adventures, Bech is sent by the State Department on a cultural-exchange junket behind the Iron Curtain. The tableaux of culturecrats in opulent neo-czarist settings undoubtedly come from Updike's memories of his own U.S.-sponsored tour of Russia in 1964. For Bech. the trip proves to be a sort of thinking man's "Mission: Impossible," in which Bech must make his way through...
...Bech is never really pathetic. He never loses sight of his ludicrous position. Somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. Bech observes that "shallowness can be a kind of honesty." It is a remark worthy of Oscar Wilde. It is unlikely, however, that Wilde-who never lost the knack of drawing life from the surface of things-would have fudged with "kind...