Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farmer but instead lived on a spread his father gave him. He raised four children but otherwise, in Madison's eyes, produced nothing except obscure poetry for 25 years. He drove old cars and wore old clothes, and when Vietnam came around, he talked like a communist. His father, Jacob Bly, was a respected farmer who turned alcoholic. Robert had to fetch him out of the bars downtown sometimes...
...Jacob Bly, was living on a diet of Hamm's beer and doughnuts in the last days: the breakfast of champions. Robert confronted him about the drinking one day, and his father said, "Go to hell!" Robert had been meaning to bring up that subject for years, and he felt much better after...
Auletta's book achieved a certain infamy long before it hit the bookstores. Jacob Weisberg used it as Exhibit A in a much discussed New Republic piece about the alleged decline of editing standards in book publishing. To be sure, Auletta's 600-plus-page account could use trimming. But his writing is never less than serviceable, and usually quite lucid. A bigger problem lies in the subject itself. Each of the episodes Auletta recounts -- Tisch's fight to gain control of the CBS board, ABC News president Roone Arledge's battle to keep 20/20 on Thursdays...
...audiences. "What you've got," says a high-level publisher, "is a lot of corporate executives who don't know publishing saying, 'Aha! There's a huge market out there that has never been tapped. Let's go after it.' " In a controversial article in the New Republic, writer Jacob Weisberg attacked this frenzied pursuit of blockbusters, charging that high-powered book editors are "not judged by the quality of the books they acquire" but rather "by the number and dollar amount of the contracts they sign...
...Steele and other critics greatly understate white resistance to black progress. To support their view, they note that self-reliance has long been a part of the black gospel for advancement. "There's nothing new in the statement that we can and should do more for ourselves," says John Jacob, president of the National Urban League. "It's not a debatable issue." But, say supporters of affirmative action, expecting blacks to pull themselves up by their bootstraps alone is unrealistic. Argues Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: "It's still...