Word: millers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were about to deal a thumping rejection to the pact, as they had done to a previous contract proposal three weeks earlier. But when most of the ballots were tallied, they showed that the rank and file had approved the contract, 58,380 to 44,210. U.M.W. President Arnold Miller reacted with a smile and a one-word comment to Secretary-Treasurer Willard Esselstyn: "Good." To reporters, Miller acknowledged that the contract did not give the miners everything they wanted. But he called it "better than anything I ever worked under...
...B.C.O.A.'S initial hard-line approach to the bargaining was set by large operators who wanted to break the union. Said the owner of a tiny mine in western Pennsylvania: "The big boys ran the B.C.O.A. show, no matter what we thought. They realized that [U.M.W. President] Arnold Miller was weak and a little dumb, and saw their chance to ram a pro-company contract down the union's throat." Added another small operator: "I figure you get a lot further by courting your men instead of cussing them...
...main topic of fretful conversation these days is inflation. It is a strong tide that may momentarily ebb with an occasional optimistic statistic, only to rise again when new reports are issued. Echoing almost all the experts, as well as the public opinion polls. Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller told the Senate Budget Committee last week that inflation is the nation's No. 1 economic problem. He also warned that it is growing worse...
Sondheim's gorgeous all-waltz score is his most openly emotional, but it is not heard here to maximum effect. Some of the best numbers (e.g., The Miller's Son) have been dropped, others have been reworked, and most of the rest (notably Taylor's Send in the Clowns) are ineptly performed. The only song that retains its full stage power is A Weekend in the Country, in which music and lyrics merge ingeniously to sum up at least five of the story's subplots and seven of its characters at once. Even in the context...
...rhythm of that statement seem characteristic of Vidal at his talk-show best, it is because Teddy O is the author's mouthpiece. Throughout the novel there is a running patter about the things Vidal loves to hate: population growth, women writers who try to write like Henry Miller, hacks, agents, the so-called communications industry, and politicians. By now these subjects are part of the author's reflexology, though as a latter-day Restoration wit he can still bring them to life in cutting caricature...