Word: ruggedness
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Many businessmen are finding out the hard way that the secure, experienced labor chieftains are more pliable and reasonable than the local leaders who have lately vaulted to power. In union politics, where it often takes up to 30 years to rise to the top, the temptation is great to...
"She's a big, tall, strong blonde," a Pitzer College admissions officer scrawled enthusiastically, in summing up the qualifications of a bright and idealistic student applicant. Personal evaluations count heavily at California's intensely informal Pitzer, where the teachers lecture in shirtsleeves, barefoot girls pad into class carrying...
Ellison, no less than Baldwin, indicts slavery and segregation for the lasting wounds that they have inflicted on the Negro. But he does not believe that the Negro's life in the U.S. has been a complete horror story. In spite of lynchings, beatings and everyday insults, the "harsh...
No Time to Sing. Tall, rugged, dashing, Malaparte was one of a vanishing breed: the intellectual buccaneer in the manner of D'Annunzio, who bounced from one Great Cause to the next. After fighting in World War I, he became an ardent advocate of Fascism. In and out of...
We were at a loss for a moment to think of even 500 businessmen who get along without the federal government in this day and age, but luckily the ad had a list of sponsors. Foremost among this group of rugged individualists were the president of a giant sugar company...