Word: nam
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...concerns the rise of the accounting prodigies who took over in Detroit during the '50s. He argues that a closed world of numbers and cost accounting pioneered by men like onetime Ford President Robert McNamara (previously flayed by Halberstam for his role as Defense Secretary during the Viet Nam War) overrode the hands-on thinking that had propelled the automakers to greatness. Partly as a result, obliviousness to the implications of the oil crisis reigned, and even minimal maintenance of Detroit's sometimes ramshackle assembly lines was squeezed. Meanwhile, Nissan, with its original ungainly Datsun, and other Japanese companies...
...another. Father Henry is a shrimper whose feelings for his family are well disguised with verbal and physical abuse. His wife Lila despises his brutality and low status and dreams of moving up in Colleton society. Eldest Son Luke, the Rambo of the salt marshes, returns from Viet Nam to wage a one- man guerrilla war against the construction of plutonium production plants. Brother Tom is an ex-high school football coach struggling with the aftermath of a nervous breakdown and a failing marriage. His twin sister Savannah is a successful poet and, fortunately, a failed suicide...
Part of the reason for these "de-nationalized" races is that no major dilemmas are confronting the U.S. and galvanizing the electorate, no Viet Nam or Watergate, no nationwide economic bust or crisis of confidence. The lack of broad national themes might also explain why many politicians, hungry for hot issues, have exploited the war against drug abuse, farm woes or local concerns...
...through the University of Maine at Orono, moonlighting as a dishwasher, Little League coach and gas- station attendant. He majored in English, minored in dramatics, marched for peace, voted Republican for the last time in 1968 ("I believed Nixon when he said he'd get us out of Viet Nam"), and met his future wife, a woman whose unlikely name, Tabitha Spruce, seems to have been plucked from a Stephen King coven. She remembers him as an imposing figure, a "campus institution" who wrote a weekly column called "King's Garbage Truck" for the school newspaper. Recalls Stephen: "Tabby looked...
...ultra-high-frequency father of video art, Nam June Paik, is understandably proud of his latest brainchild for the electronic age. This week public television will air Bye Bye Kipling, a 90-minute avant-garde variety special, broadcast live from three countries. Intended as a high- resolution refutation of Kipling's "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," the show will feature a sampler of art, music and sports. Painter Keith Haring, Musicians Philip Glass and Lou Reed and a member of Paik's "family" of video robots will appear in Manhattan, Architect Arata...