Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn-bred magnate of mutual funds, as though he had financial halitosis. Many prophesied an early demise for his Investors Overseas Services, which flouted tradition and aggressively sold mutual funds to investors abroad, much as Fuller Brush men peddle house hold wares in the U.S. Now that the raff ish upstart has built I.O.S. assets to $1.8 billion, he has become too rich and powerful to deride. Investment hous es seek Cornfeld's favor, and continental bankers have begun imitating his sales methods. Last week I.O.S. brought out its first public offering of common stock, and eager investors abroad...
...piano and John's brother Tom on bass guitar, they began as the Blue Velvets, complete with greasy hair, ducktails and matching outfits. Their stuff, as John admits now, was "pure drivel." Then they became The Golliwogs because their manager at the time thought they needed a Beatle-ish name...
Michael, the party's host, it 30-ish, charming and witty. As the play opens, we find him talking with his friend Donald, as shy Cornell drop-out, about their respective analysts, over-loving mothers and financial blues. Gradually they reveal the defense mechanisms that help them survive in a world where "failure is the only thing with which [they] feel at home." For Donald, the only escape is to go to the library and read book after book. Michael, worried about getting old, stays alive with the help of self-deprecating wisecracks ("Well, one thing you can say about...
...what way is a broad, admittedly dilettante-ish appreciation of American history "radical?" Is that not merely a codification of the typical concerns of middle-class Americans? Obviously it is, for the history and the future of America is in the hands of the middle class and its select few at the top. It is there, rather than in the speculation of Montaigne-esque aristocrats, that the American life-style and thought pattern have customarily dwelled...
...easy to say that Americans have become too self ish to cooperate in attacking social ills. For all the present dis sent and division, all sorts of people throughout the country remain compassionate and responsive to need. Clearly, those qualities in the national character form a vital resource that can be tapped by leaders with drive, purpose and exciting ideas - witness foreign aid, foundations, philanthropy. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has contributed $115.6 billion in aid to other nations - a massive contribution, not withstanding the fact that it also served U.S. policy - and supplemented the official...