Word: nestful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that a good man is hated by lesser men equally in triumph and defeat. This second novel, which repeats the same theme in a larger setting, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is as exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes...
...Growing Nest Egg. The Goldwater gold was mined mainly from two mother lodes: the Goldwater-family retail stores; and Chicago's Borg-Warner Corp., where Peggy Goldwater's father, R. P. Johnson, was a vice president and director until his death...
When Peggy Goldwater's father died, he left her a one-third share of an estate valued at $980,000. Today Peggy's nest egg has grown to include 1,690 shares of common stock in American Electric Power Co. ($77,740), 349 shares in Arizona Bancorporation ($7,330), 5,278 in Associated Dry Goods ($311,400), 2,491 in Borg-Warner ($119,568), 200 in Continental Casualty Co. ($15,600), 348 in General Electric Co. ($29,232), 798 in General Motors Corp. ($75,000), 417 in Hooker Chemical Corp. ($18,765), 87 in International Business Machines...
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that the only thing more intolerable to lesser men than the success of a good man is his defeat. This second novel, which repeats the same theme in a larger setting, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes...
...corner of 125th Street and Seventh Avenue, the black Times Square, where orators on soapboxes or folding chairs harangue passersby to "buy black" or "get whitey." In the shadow of the Theresa Hotel, where Fidel Castro plucked his chickens and Cassius Clay celebrated the feathering of his nest, Lewis Michaux composes Black Nationalist doggerel...