Word: peel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is not, as its title suggests, a play about civil rights or a comedy of black humor. It is as unsubtle and vaudevillian as a slip on a banana peel or a pie in the face-and just as much...
...incredible get-ups which many of the younger demonstrations sported were often too much even for the police. Many a sergeant broke into a jolly guffaw at the sight of a boy wearing a banana-peel headpiece or a girl covered with psychedelic paint. And on the bus from the U.N. after the rally one cop had a friendly chat with a couple of demonstrators who complimented the police on the handling of the crowd. That was credit where credit was due. No matter what the police thought of it, they handled the protest well...
...Banana Peel. Editing TIME during 1928, Luce, who had an early bias in favor of the activist and the entrepreneur, became especially engrossed in American business. Feeling that the press covered the field inadequately, he assigned a staff to explore the idea of a business magazine. Five months later, he decided the time was opportune. Among the names considered were Power and FORTUNE. Luce picked the latter because it appealed to his wife, the former Lila Ross Hotz of Chicago. They had married in 1923 and had two sons: Henry III, a Time Inc. vice president and the head...
...walked in on the Great Depression. As a later FORTUNE managing editor, Eric Hodgins, put it: "Almost on the eve of FORTUNE's publication, the whole of the economy of the U.S. clapped a hand over its heart, uttered a piercing scream, and slipped on the largest banana peel since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations." Yet, surprisingly, the magazine prospered in that dramatically inopportune time. Even at $1 a copy?then an unheard-of price for a magazine?businessmen bought FORTUNE with amazing regularity...
...lucid moment, Author Arnold explains on the dust jacket that "the marrieds are like apples. Some shed their peel, that they may be closer. Others keep their peel but sacrifice their core on the altar of love. Some can live this way. Some-like Gus-are reduced to applesauce." In the abstract sense, right...