Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profound change of attitude. At book's beginning the heaviest luggage the Rhodeses carry is their own inferiority complex. They think they know what they want-to be French; at book's end they know and accept what they are-Americans. Treating Europe and America as parent and child, William Maxwell has unfolded the recurring cycle of maturity-to go home again, one must first be able to leave...
...four, all American: J. Walter Thompson; Interpublic, Inc. (the parent corporation of McCann-Erickson); Young & Rubicam; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn...
Dread of dirt (mysophobia) goes hand in overwashed hand with the cleanliness compulsion. The victim must carry out his cleansing routine even though he knows it is unreasonable. Otherwise, he finds himself the prisoner of intolerable anxiety. The cleanliness compulsion commonly arises from conflict involving a strict and perfectionist parent. The victim begins by being simply overneat and fussy about cleanliness. Then he gets into conflict with all the people around him who do not comply with his compulsive standards. His compulsion may drive him to excessive washing of his body, of clothes, and even doorknobs. (One legendary American tycoon...
...domestic and overseas billings: Thompson, $370 million: Interpublic, Inc. (the parent corporation of McCann-Erickson), $352 million; Young & Rubicam, $247 million; B.B.D.O., $243,700,000; Dentsu Advertising of Japan, $148,500,000; Ted Bates, $130,500,000; Foote, Cone & Belding, $120 million; Leo Burnett, $116,700,000; Benton & Bowles, $114 million; N. W. Ayer, $110 million. Biggest agency in domestic billings is Interpublic, with a combined billing of $259 million from McCann-Erickson, Canada's McCann-Erickson subsidiary and McCann-Marschalk, an independent subsidiary. Runner-up is Thompson, with $250 million in U.S. and Canadian billings...
...career: "I wanted to combine the academic background with public service." He acquired a respect for learning and for public service from his German-born father, a civil engineer whom Heller recalls as an ''immensely wide reader. As a child I took for granted a range of parental information that as a parent I have never been able to live up to myself. My father knew the answer to every damn question a kid could think...