Word: manns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Europe's third biggest beer, whisky and wine company, London-based Watney Mann, has grown rapidly with the lift of a catchy slogan: "We want Watney's." Nobody takes that slogan more to heart than Maxwell Joseph, a former army lance corporal who is one of Britain's richest entrepreneurs. Joseph is chairman of Grand Metropolitan Hotels, and he wants to buy Watney's so badly he can taste it. He has made two takeover bids for the company, and the latest, due to expire this week, is worth $ 1 billion of his company...
...ground of transience, of irrational shiftlessness, that Wester mann's work has its affinities to that of other artists in the Chicago show. But their work is blacker, nastier and-in contrast to his demonic refinement-exuberantly gross. A work like June Leafs Ascension of Pig Lady, of which Woman-Theater, 1968, is a detail, is as nearly without formal interest as a work of art can be. Lush, coarse and obesely theatrical, it makes Red Grooms look like Mondrian. Gladys Nilsson's punningly titled Baroquen Oats (broken oats? baroque notes?) is a joyful orgy of animal...
...payments and new orders that fast. Much of the spending that Nixon had hoped for this year will be delayed until fiscal 1973, which begins in July. As a result, the fiscal 1973 deficit is likely to be higher than Nixon's originally projected $25.5 billion. Economist Maurice Mann, formerly Nixon's assistant budget chief, predicts that 1973's deficit will "significantly exceed $30 billion." That larger deficit should help the economy accelerate after midyear, but perhaps too much so, heightening the danger of renewed inflation...
Most men of culture and science wore blinders. When the Nazis eventually forced Conductor Bruno Walter to flee Germany in 1933, he was nonplused: Why him? "I had never taken an active part in politics." In his Reflections of a Non-Political Man, written in 1918, Thomas Mann proclaimed that he was unpolitical and proud of it. He changed his mind later. The pit of politics was left to ambitious drones or dregs. In the end it was a couple of wellborn smart-alecks, General Kurt von Schleicher and ex-Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, both conservatives, both of good...
Once upon a time American schools served, in Horace Mann's words, as "the great equalizer of the conditions of men." They took in the ragged, ill-fed sons and daughters of European immigrants, educated and Americanized them and turned them out productive members of the middle class...