Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesser art works are monumental glorifications of the autobahns, tiers of titillating, bulky Brünnhildes in the buff, and pleasant vistas of Berchtesgaden. One canvas, called Judgment of Paris, shows three hefty maidens placidly awaiting the award of the golden apple from Paris, who is a lad dressed in a Hitler Youth uniform...
Lackadaisical Lad. The Macy's image was cast by Jack Straus's forebears. Straus is descended from a line of German-Jewish traders who at the turn of the century paid $1,645,000 to buy Macy's, a thriving store that had been founded in 1858 by a onetime Yankee whaler named Rowland Hussey Macy. Straus's grandfather Isidor was a legendary merchant who started Macy's on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack...
...lackadaisical lad who grew up on Manhattan's upper East Side, Straus joined Macy's training squad straight out of Harvard in 1921, moved up from corsets and handbags into the nonselling side, eventually becoming fourth assistant general manager. Then one day his father chided him: "Jack, if I take a pushcart and fill it full of management, I haven't got much to sell. If I fill it with merchandise, I have something to sell." Straus began all over again as a junior buyer, did so well on the way back up that he was made...
...Adelphi University on Long Island accepted a scholarship reserved for applicants named Smith from nearby Franklin Square, which proved to be short of smart Smiths. Finally the dean of students successfully appealed to the donor to limit his restriction to qualified residents of Franklin Square, and a bright lad named Montgomery won the scholarship...
Another, a suave type, feeling grossly outclassed by Harvard sophistication, adopts an alien mid-western twang and cultivates a homespun humor and the slightly hayseed appearance of an endearing country lad. A third arrives sporting a youthful social idealism. Finding this stance unfashionable, he soon outdoes his classmates in pretending to the cynicism of a world-wise septagenarian. Sometimes one's entire undergraduate career may become an act. "The Snow-Man," of one sort or another, is a traditional Harvard phenomenon The ethos of this complex is ambition; its characteristic emotion is frustration...