Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with their piety, the Eisenhowers gave their sons the frontier creed of self-starting individualism. "Opportunity is all about you," they told them. "Reach out and take it. Do you want to go to school? Well, go!" Too old at 20 for Annapolis, his first choice, Ike qualified for West Point, where he reported in June 1911. Never an intellectual, he distinguished himself more as an athlete than as a scholar, graduating 61st in a class of 164. At his first post, Texas' Fort Sam Houston, Second Lieut. Eisenhower met Mamie Doud, a vivacious belle from Denver. They were...
...never really seen a Frankenthaler before. In Manhattan's close and somewhat clubby artistic community, nearly everybody knows Helen Frankenthaler as a charmer, a hostess and a presence. Back in the early 1950s, she was the brash, aggressive young girl friend of Clement Greenberg, the eloquent critic and self-appointed evangelist who has done the most to recognize and extol the genius of Jackson Pollock. For the past eleven years, she has been the wife of Robert Motherwell, and in a sense, Helen always seemed in the artistic shadow of her husband and other "first-generation" Abstract Expressionists. Thus...
Died. John Mason Brown, 68, journalist, drama critic and lecturer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of a Louisville, Ky., lawyer, Brown was labeled the "Confederate Aristotle" for his self-deprecating wit and tongue-in-cheek pedantry. He was drama critic for the New York Evening Post from 1929 until 1941; after that, his Saturday Review column, "Seeing Things," became a forum for broad commentary. But the theater was always his passion, and in 1963 he quit the Pulitzer jury when the prize was not awarded to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...raising the prospect that predominantly white oldtimers might willingly relinquish jobs to black newcomers, the U.A.W. is neither so naive nor so self less as it might sound. Thanks to sup plemental unemployment benefits and the guaranteed annual income that Walter Reuther's union has won in recent years, veteran workers would hardly suf fer at all. A man with a year or more on the job would still draw nearly 95% of his weekly wage for 31 weeks. A man on the job for seven or more years could get similar benefits for a full year. Under ordinary...
...originally brought up inverted seniority during contract talks in both 1964 and 1967 but got nowhere. The auto companies, which pay most of the bill for unemployment benefits (Ford's fund totals $80 million), fear that the idea would make production cut-lacks so costly as to be self-defeating. In effect, they complain, inverted seniority could force the industry indirectly to pay two men for one job. They also worry that the scheme might destroy incentive and strip plants of experienced workers...