Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...communist myself, I was brought up to know that it is unsafe, nearly suicidal, to speak against God, Mother, Apple Pie, and the Flag in America. I learned what it means to have one's career destroyed by one's beliefs. I learned that refusing to be an informer can be a felony. Not until 1963 did any member of my family forget the lessons Joseph McCarthy taught us so well...
HOUSE COURSES have been the Harvard equivalent of motherhood and apple pie. Everyone knows that hordes of students apply to get into them and that tutors teach them with religious enthusiasm. And to those who complain that the lecture system is impersonal and often ineffective, administrators can hold up house courses as evidence that Harvard is, after all, a progressive institution academically...
...Whole Pie. Besides adding new stores of its own, Dayton's last year bought up San Francisco's fashionable Shreve & Co. jewelry store, and earlier this year acquired the two Diamond department stores in Phoenix, Ariz., and the four-store Lipman chain in Oregon. Long committed to the "whole pie" theory of retailing, which emphasizes bargain-basement as well as high-fashion merchandise, the company is also expanding its six-year-old chain of Target discount stores, a $100 million-a-year operation that has outlets in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. The most impressive growth has come...
...minds his reputation as the nation's sharpest hatchet man. "In four out of five pieces," he answers, "I bend over backwards to be nice to the subject. But life just isn't apple pie and Mother's Day seven days a week, and if you're going to write something that isn't going to be thrown out with, the coffee grounds, you have to tell it like it is. Look, I'm a very people-oriented person. I grew up without any unhappiness. And I just love people. But if some jackass...
...straining to meet all but the farthest-out extremists halfway, zeroed in on two grievous weaknesses that beset black moderates: the lack of involvement in the slums by middle-class Negroes and deep-seated white racism. To Young, Alabama's Segregationist George Wallace "is as American as cherry pie." Replied Merchant Stanley Marcus, head of the famed Dallas Nieman-Marcus store: "We must have a deep commitment by a vast majority of the white citizens of this country that this is their problem." And when twoscore ghetto youngsters invaded a league meeting, grabbing a microphone, Young hearkened patiently...