Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...packaging, commercialization, overscheduling or professional planning can squeeze the raw, sweaty, boozy, friendly humanity out of a convention. Such a celebration is well suited to an age when life has too often been stripped of drama, romance and the sense of limitless possibility. Says Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger (Men in Groups): "The convention is an effort, like the fair of old or the harvest feast, to generalize one's experience, to making something more meaningful...
While their wives went to programs for the women's division (Joan Kennedy spoke to them about improving one's self-image), the men attended seminars on such subjects as the potential deregulation of the industry (the owners don't want it) and the tariff problems of heavy carriers. Representatives from all 51 A.T.A. state chapters listened, debated (often heatedly) and took notes. "Our company feels this is a way of life," said Newton Graves Jr., a vice president of Yellow Freight System, one of the nation's largest common carriers. "We have 15 people...
...real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel lobby, but there was a show of public meetings. The first of them opened with a welcome by the mayor of Monarch. The pastor of the First Christian Church of Monarch, a large man with a long damp frontal lock, informed God that the real-estate men were here...
Because they put such a priority on enterprise, the Irish people will enjoy some unusual gifts this Christmas. Jobs are being created so fast that the 150-year-old hemorrhage of forced emigration has been stopped; no longer can it be said that Ireland's greatest export is men. The population is rising for the first time in modern history. Irishmen are returning home from distant lands. And a most remarkable development is occurring: at current growth rates, the Irish standard of living-based on production per capita-in 1980 will surpass that of once mighty Britain...
Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Warner Bros.). Rock satire that works. Devo is a band of crafty loonies who play at being harbingers of a bleary future when the human species is sliding back down Darwin's scale. Space Junk and Uncontrollable Urge are among Devo's marching songs for"de-evolution"; they are also a rich source of silly...