Word: redeemability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entry Point. Among the stamp savers is Mrs. E.F. MacDonald, who refuses to stop at a service station that does not offer stamps, assiduously fills her books to redeem for Christmas presents. Though he himself could bring home the same premiums at wholesale cost, his wife's habit delights the Scots heart of Mac MacDonald, for whom premiums are a way of life. A rotund, robust optimist, MacDonald started his business career with a small Dayton firm selling luggage as contest prizes for salesmen. By expanding the company's premium line and concentrating on Detroit's automakers...
...list could be extended. I single out Mssrs. Schwarz, Parry, and Houston because they redeem themselves with other entries: Schwarz with some of his cartoons, Parry with a parody of Hemingway, Houston with a parody of Salinger. These contributions, some elegant drawings by Sam Little, a game called "The Riots of Spring," and a tract by Dave Hirschfeld are the presentable things in the first issue. To call them more than presentable would be overstating the case...
Titania (Sally Marshall) is a most attractive but most insipid Queen. In deep it is left to Oberon to redeem the fairies, which John Parker effectively does: his light scheming and commanding presence indicate that whatever happens in the wood, he is essentially in charge. One wonders, though, how even he can deal with the curious jumble of wood-creatures Adams House has given him. Theseus (Langdon Marsh) could profit by some of Oberon's authority; Marsh manages to lose his air of vague ineffectuality only in the final...
...Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern Art museums bought his work; so did such collectors as Nelson Rockefeller and Peggy Guggenheim. But Congdon shrank from success. He traveled widely through the Mediterranean in search of new images, drank as a stimulus to creation. "Each painting," he wrote, "seemed to redeem me, as the life-ring saves the drowning man. I began to see in each painting a stay against the eventual death sentence...
...cost. He also denied some of the rumors rising in the wake of Curtis' decline. It is not true, said MacNeal, that Curtis could not meet November interest payments on its debentures (no payment was due then), or that it would not even be able to redeem the debentures, i.e., repay the loans when due (not until...