Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Bogdanovich's intention here was to do a pastiche of '30s screw ball comedy, particularly of Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, whose plot he lifted and whose blisteringly fast pace he attempted to emulate. He also borrowed from other sources as varied as Buster Keaton and...
More newspapers and magazines are assigning individual reporters, or groups of them, to work full-time searching for exposés. Some notable scoops have resulted. LIFE, for instance, revealed connections between Abe Fortas and Financier Louis Wolfson, who was later imprisoned, that eventually forced Fortas to resign from the...
Goodbye, Veeps. Company chiefs learned during the recession that they could get along with smaller work forces, and they are continuing to trim zealously. Though steel production rose slightly last year, the number of employed steel workers fell by 44,000, to 487,000. U.S. Steel Corp. chopped almost 17...
Harvard's total annual income approaches $200 million; of that, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is allotted $58 million. Every year, moreover, approximately $15 million of the annual income is not spent at all, but appears to be plowed directly back into the endowment without ever reaching any of...
Without a full accounting, administration claims of "crisis" seem to represent bookkeeping-juggling of planned deficits to justify belt-tightening. In Dean Dunlop's letter to Jones, for instance, stating that "the unrestricted deficit of the Faculty in 1970-71 was $1 million and the budgeted deficit for the current...