Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything but overproduction -and soon-in steel." Another downward sign came from the paper industry. Unfilled orders for paperboard, traditional bellwether for all other paper products, were off 40% from a year ago. And from the Federal Reserve Board came word that because of slack demand, production of many consumer goods had been cut considerably below the levels authorized...
...absorbed enough of these taxes," Wursthaus owner Frank Cardullo said. He pointed to the last 50 percent federal floor stock tax rise in 1944. But business should not slack off too much, according to Cardullo...
...ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy; and Michael Strong, as Wiseman's slack-jawed crony...
Mostly, Webster pictures the radio & TV audience at its moments of greatest strain: clubbed senseless by commercials, drowned in the soap-opera flood, lacerated by thrillers, held slack-jawed and limp before the endless, banal assault on ear and eye and mind. When his characters are caught with their sets off, they exhibit every nuance of the Walter Mitty syndrome: grandmothers speak to one another with the accents of private eyes; moppets dry-gulch their parents from behind the furniture; housewives confront "their startled husbands with all the teary grandeur of John's Other Wife...
...calls "the vast splendid limitless panorama of America." They also invoke the high codes and courage Faulkner associates with the Old South, in this case the founders of Jefferson, Miss, in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seat of Faulkner's fictional kingdom. The Temple Drakes, the Gowan Stevenses and their slack-spined, country-clubbing breed have corrupted these codes, he implies. The only atonement is suffering. In the South, the Negro knows most about suffering. Perhaps, Faulkner seems to be saying, the Negro will yet help the South find redemption...