Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without work are in professional, technical or managerial classifications. Nationally, many teachers and recent college graduates with liberal arts degrees find themselves unwanted, and managers in the over-50 set who were forced to take early retirement and itch to get back in the saddle are pounding the streets. Ross Kalegi, owner of an Akron employment agency, describes the plight of one: "He was making $18,000 a year as a sales executive at a rubber firm, but he was forced to retire at 57. He isn't worth anywhere near his old salary...
Directed by FRED ZINNEMANN Screenplay by KENNETH ROSS...
...forewarned, and let me now tell you Ross Macdonald's new book, Sleeping Beauty, is simply terrific...
...significance. Every self-respecting locale and era has its poet. Just as Proust captured the spirit of modern French bourgeois life, just as Richard Wright conveyed the black lifestyle to his white readers, just as Scott Fitzgerald and the Roaring Twenties have become synonomous, so the work of Ross Macdonald is Southern California: dazzling, superficial, gaudy, colorful, combining desire with revulsion, beauty with horror, excitement with monotony...
Because anyone who doesn't enjoy Ross Macdonald cannot appreciate Southern California, which as everyone knows, is the true heart and guts of America, the future of the world. It would be un- American not to like Ross Macdonald and not to love Sleeping Beauty, one of his best books yet. No, it would be more than un-American. It would be unforgivable. And impossible...