Word: manley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shocking film, and thus notorious, he is offered a teaching post at one of Manhattan's melting-pot universities (in 1972 Burgess lectured at the City College of New York). In Enderby's case, the film is no Clockwork Orange but a salacious travesty of Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland...
...since the middle of December, along with bumper stickers reading I'M NOT BUYING RECESSION and even an occasional billboard. Read one in Charleston, S.C., where unemployment was only 3.2%: WELCOME TO CHARLESTON. THE RECESSION ENDS HERE. Charleston, in fact, is where the contagious campaign originated with Manley Eubank, a Ford automobile dealer. Worried that Americans were talking themselves into a recession, he decided to do something about it. The first spate of ads and bumper stickers appeared after Eubank got the Charleston Automobile Dealer Association...
...passed his dubious prime--in writing and in life. He, like Burgess, has been asked to teach for a year at Manhattan U., ostensibly because of the controversy his film script has created in America. The name of the film, of course, is changed: Enderby has adapted Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland for the screen, to be produced and directed by Melvin Schaumwein. Chisel Productions. His reasons for the crude adaptation is that the film might lead people to read the poem, which is recognizably better art. But instead, the film, warped by the director...
Thus Beverlee Manley, an analyst for an assembly committee, does not al low her lobbyist husband to buy her din ner. There is some doubt that Sarah Michael, a consultant for another committee, could legally accept an engagement ring from Bernie Mikell, her boy friend, since he works as a lobbyist for the California Savings and Loan League. The state's assemblymen have sworn off the free orange juice, dough nuts, ice cream and milk that traditionally have been donated by outside interests...
...Manley insists that the only important consideration is the reduction of crime. If the gun court is ruled unconstitutional by Jamaica's court of appeal, the Prime Minister warns he will devise another means of keeping pressure on the gunmen. His position is unequivocal: "There is no place in this society for the gun, now or ever...