Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The stock market is a funhouse mirror of the U.S. economy. It reflects business trends and public expectations in highly exaggerated form, but there is usually enough reality underlying the distortions so that it cannot be ignored. This is especially true now that the market affects the wealth of 100...
THE TOWER IS EVERYWHERE by Richard Jones. 288 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $6.95.
He writes, if the Omniscient Novelist is Richard Jones, like this: "Chandler was a curious mixture of ageing philanderer and eternal bachelor; he pursued girls (in an avuncular way) the more ardently if they gave signs of rejecting him; he was exactly the man to half-pursue a girl like...
After four miles, little had changed. Koerner, the only Harvard man in the top 20, had fallen back to ninth, and Merrick had opened a lead of 100 yards over Thornton and Ritson. At the last, Ritson outkicked Thornton for second, but Merrick held on to win the race in...
Wall Street Worry. Last week in the stock market, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 23 points, to 852, wiping out most of the gain that followed Nixon's announcement of the freeze. The market was reacting not only to worries about U.S. business for the rest of this...