Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice covers the range between rage and self-pity easily, and his movements are the most effective in the show. His best moment--and the play's--is the death scene, where he communicates fully the terror of his murder. He does justice to a scene which, said Charles Lamb, "moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient and modern, with which I am acquainted...
...Helsinki, they fled from the welcome-to-Finland ceremonies as fast as decency permitted. And sure enough, when Thelonious Monk shambled out on the stage of the Kulttuuritalo that night to the spirited applause of 2,500 young Finns, there on his head was a splendid creation in fake lamb's-wool...
...course of piling up a $50 million fortune, Ohio Businessman Edward Lamb has drifted farther and farther away from his first profession-the law. Last week, in a speech at the Harvard Business School, Lamb offered an explanation of sorts: "The importance and influence of the legal profession in the United States and elsewhere is rap idly declining." The lawyer, said sometime-Lawyer Lamb, is being supplanted in power and influence by the professional manager. "In my opinion, the American and international leaders of the future will come increasingly from our schools of business administration and less and less from...
...attorney, Lamb specialized in representing labor against management; he handled an occasional no-fee civil liberties case, and likes to say that he had "the largest nonpaying law practice in the U.S." But fact is, he made law pay well, earning as much as $200,000 a year. During the Depression of the '30s he invested in distress-priced stocks and real estate, and he prospered on the price recovery of the '40s. Finding that business was "less work and a lot more fun" than law, Lamb decided that "the way to build up a big fortune...
...Lawyers, Lamb told his audience, tend to spend too much time looking backward. "The complex problems of our technological society of today are being resolved by men who make decisions quickly based on facts and data quickly assembled. Last year's figures are of only historical importance as we set up profit planning against future targets. Professional managers, therefore, look forward...