Word: nones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man; the storm-grey sea yields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high; earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven with shining furrows where his plows have gone . . ." (Antigone...
...Boston's venerable John McCormack, 77, in a contest for the post of Speaker. Udall, who was entering first grade when McCormack took his seat in the House, also defied precedent: few Speakers in modern times have been threatened by a member of their own party, and none has ever been ousted. It was Udall's challenge to McCormack that inspired Kennedy's campaign against Long...
...political acumen to realize that an opportunity existed to make a quantum jump in Senate status. He recognized first the changing mood of the Democrats in the Senate, who strongly felt the urge for new leadership. He saw that Russell Long, who has had many problems and has been none too popular with his colleagues, was ripe for picking Finally, sizing up the situation, he had the courage-or the gall-to make the challenge. Challenge is a family tradition with the Kennedys. On the other hand, Maine's Edmund Muskie, fresh from good reviews as the Democratic vice...
...None may be more important to life than the type of event that Sociologist Erving Goffman calls "gatherings." These human groupings are often so fleeting and informal as to be unrecognizable as social functions-a ride in an elevator, two strangers passing on the street. They also include such emphatic events as the cocktail party. No less than the state and the family, the gathering has its own rules and laws. It is Goffman's contention that without the implicit obedience that these laws of behavior systematically command, the grander and more visible forms of human association would probably...
...line was the product of a unique three-way merger that in 1968 brought together Pacific Air Lines of San Francisco, Phoenix-based Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. None of the three was big enough to boss the other two, and the result of divided leadership was snarled schedules and fouled-up reservations. The Bank of America, which financed the merger with $54 million and expected its money back by Jan. 1, advised Air West's management to sell the company "before it is no longer at tractive." Meanwhile, no more loans...