Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from his speech and footage of the delirious reception he received from the delegates. The film was studded with staged vignettes of American life: a smiling old couple, a wedding, a sunrise, a house under construction. Over one, an announcer says, "America's back." Explains Phil Dusenberry, a Madison Avenue creative director and Reagan advertising strategist: "That is what we have done in the past with Pepsi, to elicit a sense of feeling. It is a sense of optimism, a sense of patriotism...
Friedrich is survived by the wife, Lenore of Cambridge; a brother. Wolfgang Friedrich of Berlin; two sons Paul William of Chicago, and one of New York; two daughter. Matilda de Boor of Madison wise and Dorothea Gombrich of Oxford England...
Edward Brennan went to work for Sears, Roebuck in 1956 as a salesman in the men's clothing department of the Madison, Wis., store. But he was not the kind of per son who would spend much time amid shirts and socks. Last week Brennan became Sears' president, chief operating officer and heir apparent to Chairman Edward R. Telling, 65, who is due to retire in December 1985. As head of the large merchandising group for the past four years, Brennan, 50, developed the successful strategy for sprucing up Sears' stodgy image by introducing new store designs...
...rubble of the once placid farming town 25 miles west of Madison looked like the aftermath of a prolonged military bombardment: the bank was split open, the fire station was smashed, 120 homes were ruined, the Lutheran church was leveled, yet its bell tower still stood grandly over the rubble as did the bulbous water tower emblazoned with the name Barneveld. Said Wisconsin Governor Anthony Earl: "It's the worst disaster I've ever seen. There are many, many people who are going to need long-term help...
...appeal of ordeal is not the accomplishment itself but reaching the state of awareness through the nearly forgotten practice of self-denial. By indulging in an excessive standard of living fueled by imaginary needs created by Madison Avenue and disseminated by the media, the Western world has lost touch with its senses. Denial breaks the spell and allows the individual to become aware. With a raised consciousness one can rediscover true values and a sense of self-worth...