Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salesman; it is a Bible salesman. The choice is not that arbitrary. The world of commerce has sucked up religious life; Christ's passion is another pitch in American's long sales talk. The contradictions of salesman lie in the sinister meaning the history of capitalism has given to Luck 2:49. Christ, having been reprimanded by his parents for I must be about my Father's business?" A Catholic priest, spiritual consultant to Brennan's employer (each Bible salesman begin his talk wit "I'm from the church"), exhorts God to grant these good men "an abundant harvest...
...talking about Argentina's Lalo Schifrin, 37, who used to jam with Dizzy's band in Birdland days. Today Schifrin is widely accepted in Hollywood as the most inventive composer of movie scores in the business. Since quitting the Gillespie quintet in 1963 to try his luck with films, he has scored 21 features (Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt), three TV serials (including Mission: Impossible, with its pulsating, wide-open jazz theme) and half a dozen TV specials. Almost all the scores are good, and almost all are different in style and sound...
Trusting to Luck. So much money is involved that ambitious contractors can quickly build substantial businesses. Chicago's Tony La Pelusa, for example, started a tiny contracting firm at the age of 19. He picked a specialty-installation of aluminum siding, windows and eaves-and advertised heavily. Today, at 26, he owns three trucks, employs eight workers and farms out work to subcontractors. Vincent Bardis, 40, a former salesman, has built a bigger Chicago business by coordinating the work of 36 subcontractors. His firm has booked $750,000 worth of business so far this year. For some other contractors...
...warping walls, quick-cracking concrete and misconnected electric lines. A homeowner can weed out the worst contractors by consulting his local Better Business Bureau, and the BBB can sometimes prod a contractor to correct faulty work. Most of the time, however, the harried homeowner must trust to hunch-and luck...
...such luck. Instead, she fetches up as secretary-housekeeper to Mark Coldridge, a leftist writer whose crowded Bloomsbury house is a Dostoevskian rendering of the Victorian family. "Everything as sick and neurotic and hopeless as you can imagine. A dominating mama over all, and a wife in a mental hospital, and a man just sitting waiting for some sucker like me to cope with everything," she muses. The household rocks with emotion-pent-up, misdirected, short-circuited. Martha is nearly driven out by the sound of solitary whimpering behind closed doors...