Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, it appears that Harvard, ignoring signs, rules, and sensibilities, has extended its pursuit of excellence to the merchandising game. I realize that this is progress, and that the most effective thing I can do is resign myself to it. But before making my final submission to the techniques of mass marketing, I do wish to register this one weak protest. Until recently, I had hoped that my relationship to Harvard was something more than that of consumer of doughnuts...
...novels after 1930, even the successful It Can't Happen Here and Kingsblood Royal, were jerry-built, and some of them were embarrassingly bad. E. M. Forster predicted his decline as early as Dodsworth; in an essay on Lewis called "A Camera Man," he wrote: "Photography is a pursuit for the young. So long as a writer has the freshness of youth on him, he can work the snapshot method, but when it passes he has nothing to fall back upon. It is here that he differs from the artist...
...like a man's, can be read in the lines on its face. The roads that lace the U.S.'s 110,000 hamlets, towns and cities into a single organism have transformed a remote, leisurely agricultural society into a compact, highspeed industrial civilization that is in constant pursuit of mobility...
...Though the coal industry is generally considered a fading one, the enthusiasm with which United Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis welcomed automation has created a situation in which a few highly paid miners running vastly efficient machines turn out high-profit production. Similarly, Walter Reuther's vigorous pursuit of the good life for his autoworkers-who now enjoy wages 1.39 times the national average-helps to explain the auto industry's high money contribution to the economy...
...underwear tycoon, is the image of Shaw's young old man, the drawing-room atheist who quotes his chosen gospels: "Read Ibsen. Read Dickens. Read Whatshisname." As his daughter Hypatia, Frances Sternhagen seems to have been born with a riding crop in hand and the conviction that the pursuit of a mate is the most exciting form of fox hunt. James Greene is cringingly comic as a socialist underdog who yearns to bite the hand that feeds...