Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-confessedly an artistic wallflower. He was known, if at all, in Manhattan art circles as a minor architect and Sunday painter of geometric abstractions, a semiprofessional Irishman (his great-grandparents were from the land of Joyce) whose recitals of Finnegans Wake livened up artists' parties. Then, almost overnight, Smith blossomed...
...accomplish this, Stone and Karp applied some basic business principles to once-floundering Monogram: they cut costs, fired unproductive employees, eliminated worthless products while bol stering a profitable line of recirculating toilets for aircraft. Stone had acquired this talent shortly after graduating from law school, when overnight he made a reputation - and a pile of cash - as a resuscitator of sick companies for Hous ton Fearless Corp. In 1954, the com pany split up, and he joined International Glass, a former division...
...market. The beaches bounce with bikinis, and teen-agers in Teheran have joined the Transistor Generation. The ancient, withered men of Yezd are being taught to read. In Qum and Bam, in Dizful and Gowater and 50,000 villages throughout Iran, 15 million peasants have been transformed, almost overnight in history's terms, from feudal serfs into freeholders whose land is now their...
...five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until, as it did for the dying pharmacist in her last novel, her own "clock without hands" ran down...
This is a philosophy which belongs in a Swedish prison or a stud farm but not at a university. The heart of the matter was decided long ago when the masters initiated parietals and when Mrs. Bunting allowed Radcliffe girls to sign out overnight. That fact signified that the university, although concerned, did not see fit to interfere in the private affairs of its students. The whole problem of parietals is a distasteful and vulgar tug-of-war which challenges the university in an area where the greatest possible concession has already been made. The university is wrong to limit...