Word: maker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muskogee potato chip maker who went broke in the Depression, Jones, 40, grew up in the city's segregated black ghetto because it was the only place where his family could afford to buy a home. Armed with a taste for politics and a sense of social justice, he got a night-school law degree from Georgetown University, gravitated to Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign, and wound up as the President's appointments secretary, one of the handful of White House staffers closest to L.B.J. Of that period he now says, "We created a lot of cynicism...
...making anything. Auden has a wonderful essay?it's in The Dyer's Hand?about how young people want to be writers. He says it's something the Greeks understood. The writer is somebody who makes something with his own hands. And he draws the distinction between being a maker and a drudge. Work is what a freeman did, and drudgery is what slaves did. Kids instinctively grasp that writing is being a maker. But reporting is drudgery...
...weigh the individual's right to privacy and human dignity versus the state's interest, the court established itself as the chief decision-maker, with the help of a court-appointed guardian...
Exxon left the biggest surprise for last. The company hopes to have the energy-saving ACS for sale within a year if it can successfully buy Reliance Electric Co., a Cleveland-based maker of electric motors that had sales of $966 million in 1978. The takeover, which appears to be a friendly one, would give the oil company the electrical expertise and production lines that it needs to rush the new device to market. The trustbusters may object, since the oil majors are under attack for spending profits on non-oil diversifications. But the Department of Energy quite possibly will...
Still, some habits die hard. If Saint Jack is not another complete embarrassment for Bogdanovich, it nonetheless reveals his deficiencies as a film maker. Again he describes emotions without ever feeling them; he flogs tired ideas to death and gets bland performances from his cast. Saint Jack shows off Bogdanovich's considerable craftsmanship, but it has the look of a high-minded movie, too empty to arouse any emotion other than indifference...