Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federally licensed and are protected under the First Amendment's freedom-of-speech provision. Few publications plan voluntarily to stop such advertising in the near future, since it brought them $50 million in revenues last year. They also argue that printed ads appeal mostly to adults and are less intrusive than TV commercials, which often run while children are viewing. Even so, Senator Moss has warned publishers to avoid accepting "massive print advertising campaigns" and urged them to "maintain current ratios" of cigarette to non-cigarette advertising. Quite likely, publishers will feel increasing moral pressure to drop cigarette...
...Port Authority reports only that the intricacies of multiple-contract construction-in some cases seven companies are providing steel for a single floor of the Trade Center-have caused no delays or problems. If so, other steel users may find that parceling out work among small firms is less expensive and more efficient than awarding it to the lumbering giants...
Though plentiful, facts about Babel are less precise than his fiction. An obsessive craftsman, intensely jealous of his working and thinking time, he was often evasive and devious with friends and editors. There is no doubt, however, that Babel's life was brief. In 1939, after nearly a decade of playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile...
Alas, the marvels of science so relished by Wells have produced far less than Utopia. Lovat Dickson, formerly an editor and director of Macmillan and Co., Wells' London publisher, cannot quite forgive the man who blithely sold the masses on the future. But he makes clear that Wells was the first gulled victim of his own salesmanship, and that with his extraordinary capacity for hope went an extraordinary capacity for disenchantment. Inside the complacent optimist, a desperate pessimist was signaling wildly...
...less a climb than a rocket launching. In quick order The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and other futuristic fantasies made Wells the English Jules Verne. He stirred the minds of his generation to science, the new possibility in their lives, and the paying public rewarded him with possibilities in his own life. Both prophet and audience shared a kind of mutual fulfillment-in Wells' phrase, "possessing joys not promised them at birth...