Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KINGDOM AND THE POWER, by Gay Talese. A former New York Times staffer takes his readers far behind the bylines for a gossipy analysis of the workings and power struggles within the nation's most influential newspaper...
...Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (4) 2. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (2) 3. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (6) 4. Jennie, Martin (1) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (3) 6. The 900 Days, Salisbury (5) 7. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman 8. Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, Newfield 9. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (10) 10. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester...
...beaten 'im before," Newcombe mused. "Bu' oy can'ht 'it wi' im froom the byseloine. oy naid..." Newcombe here waved his hand aimlessly, as if trying to grasp an unattainable secret to break Leaver's power. And immediately after the singles match, he'll have to pair with Roche to face Laver and Pancho Gonzalez in the doubles final...
...Ford has overtaken Chevrolet in the light-truck market. But the margin is slim, and each manufacturer predicts sales of 700,000 trucks this year. Ford tops its line with the sporty Ranchero, while Chevrolet counters with the El Camino. A long list of options includes air conditioning, power steering, automatic transmission, wooden steering wheels, bucket seats and high-performance engines. The price of a dolled-up pickup can approach $5,000, and the cost of the piggyback camping unit that slides into the truck bed can add another...
...power of religion fades, moral values disappear into the formless, indiscriminate carp-mouth of technological progress. Inevitably, old spiritual terrain is left unprotected. Pseudo philosophers, crypto-religionists, pyrotechnical polemicists (all fuse and no bang) are bound to move in. The key question for all religions is how to cope with and justify the control over man of a universe that appears to be spectacularly indifferent. Death is the most conspicuous example of such control...