Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lobstermen and fishermen of Provincetown, Mass, agreed last week that 17-year-old Frank Cabral Jr. would be a famous man until he died. The boy and his father headed seaward at 5 one morning in a 30-ft. powerboat with two dories in tow. They came back with a breathless tale...
Shakespeare's Audience. It is not likely that Shakespeare will ever again reach the lusty, semiliterate mass audience for which he wrote; today's equivalent fills the neighborhood movie houses. Henry V was seen by an estimated 5% of the people in each U.S. city where it was shown (as against a rough 30-40% who see the average Hollywood movie hit). Some who did see Henry must have gone to see it out of culture-snobbery, or because they were led by the ears. The heartening fact is that the picture better than paid for itself...
...Lever House in Cambridge, Mass., Luckman practices his belief that the best management makes the big plans, delegates their execution. He has surrounded himself with a "first team" of six new, youngish vice presidents. Says Boss Luckman: "They carry the ball. All I do is call the signals...
...villainous than his European counterpart (whose predatory impulses are merely concealed under "greater elegance of form"). But he has, Laski believes, unknowingly "adapted . . . the main doctrines of Machiavelli's Prince." He regards the world primarily as "a market which the combined power of high-pressure salesmanship and cheap mass production will open to him . . . Massively energetic in action," skeptical of theories, he considers most politics as "a wanton interference with the natural laws by which businessmen govern society...