Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world affairs, the words "dynamic" and "creative" are used with much frequency. Such words tend to be bandied about with too much ease today, so much so that they have lost almost all meaning. But Bowles is not proposing verbal solutions built on cliches. He is not playing the Madison Avenue word game, but engaging in an old American activity of saying what you mean...
When the Ritz Carlton moved uptown to Madison Avene and 61st Street, they changed the name of the hotel to just plain Carlton. But the bar remained the Ritz Carlton Bar. It's not really a bar. It's a sprawling, antiseptic, and canaped cocktail lounge, staffed by maitres de and cluttered with bowls of peanuts...
Networks may trumpet the latest figures in full-page ads; Madison Avenue may study them in a grey flannel funk. But for the average televiewer, ratings remain a mathematical mystery. Do they really tell whether one show is better than another? Or more popular? Or both? The answer, said Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney last week, is that the ratings add up to a statistical tyranny that fleeces the public of quality shows...
...Northwestern, is sifting out, with notably nonacademic readability, what Adams actually felt and achieved despite his self-proclaimed "failure." During the 13-year-period (1877-90) covered by this book. Adams produced two biographies, two novels, and a 4,000-page history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison. This could be called failure only in the special sense that an Adams was born to expect miracles from any Adams...
Hamlet, Twelfth Night & Henry V. New vigor from the Old Vic. In MADISON and DETROIT...