Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convocation of intellectuals in Princeton last month, Edward Shils, professor of social thought at the University of Chicago, announced: "The Wasp has abdicated, and his place has been taken by ants and fleas. The Wasp is less rough and far more permissive. He lacks self-confidence and feels lost." Other observers feel that the growing dissension in American life is a clear sign that the Wasp has lost his sting, that his culture no longer binds. The new radicals and protesters are not in rebellion against Wasp rule as such, but they deride the Wasp's traditional values, including...
...Last week, after a century and a half of continuous publication, the Post came to an end. Readership had remained high in recent years, but costs rose higher and advertising revenues went down. Largely because of the Post's problems, the parent Curtis Publishing Co. had lost $62 million since 1961. The Post figured to cut its deficit from $5,000,000 last year to $3,000,000 in 1969, but hopes of regaining advertisers remained dim. The Curtis board of directors, bowing to the inevitable, gathered in New York City and decreed death for the magazine after...
...flash pre-emoted the role of family entertainer. Whittaker Chambers' "I Was the Witness" and Veteran Pete Martin's "I Call On" interviews with celebrities set alltime records for newsstand sales, and circulation grew to 6,000,000; but it was a lowest-common-denominator readership. Advertisers lost faith in the Post audience and moved their accounts to TV or to more modern or specialized publications...
...trade A big stadium to fill with cheering fans Coaches to advise And, best of all, there was the fun of going to the Bel-Air Hotel bar and staying up late at night talking football with friends. The only trouble was that too often Danny's team lost more games than it won, once for seven seasons in a row. That got to be boring and, in an effort to liven things up, Danny kept switching coaches. When he fired No. 6 just two days before Christmas of 1965, some people said that he had become too difficult...
...Then, three years ago, Danny offered the coaching job to George Allen. Danny had to fight a nasty legal battle to free him from the Chicago Bears' coaching staff, but eventually he got his way. The players loved Allen; in the past two seasons they won 21 games, lost four and tied three. The fans loved Allen too, but Danny was unhappy. For one thing, Allen, the son of a factory worker, had a quaint idea that the fun of football was winning. For another thing, people were beginning to refer to Danny's team as George...