Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Los Angeles, served as a Marine intelligence officer in World War II, later worked his way through college and eventually became a millionaire developer of shopping centers. A few years ago, he says, "I was a tennis player, a moneymaker and a knee-jerk Democrat." His life centered on Palm Springs weekends and boosting his fortune to $10 million. Then something happened: his two youngest children (a third is 30 and less influential) "transformed me from a clod into a citizen...
...Writes Toffler: "It is not simply that we do not know which goals to pursue. The trouble lies deeper. For accelerating change has made obsolete the methods by which we arrive at social goals. The technocrats do not yet understand this, and, reacting to the goals crisis in knee-jerk fashion, they reach for the tried and true methods of the past...
...JUST saw my Congressman. What a jerk!" The college kid for whose benefit the remark was made laughed. It was 85 degrees. The armpit of his three-piece suit was completely sweated through, and he sympathized equally with the girl and his suit...
...citation accompanying his honorary degree from the University of Cincinnati ticked off a singular list of occupations: "Delivery boy, dancing teacher, shoe salesman, soda jerk and amateur prizefighter-which last activity may share responsibility for his famous profile." Cracked Bob Hope, L.H.D.: "Who wrote that? Crosby...
...seemed destined for Yale and a happily-ever-after life, but just before he was to go to New Haven his father died and there was no money for college. O'Hara went on to a spectacularly varied assortment of jobs-freight clerk, steel-mill worker, soda jerk, gas-meter reader and deckhand-before turning to writing...