Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reluctant Saint. Little Giuseppe Desa was a miserable child. He was born in a mean village near Otranto, Italy, in the year 1603. His mother treated him "with great severity," and the child, sickly and confused, wandered about with dazed eyes and slack lips, understanding little, forgetting even to eat. The villagers called him Boccaperta, The Gaper, and considered him an idiot...
Many steelmen had hoped that this slack would be taken up by the auto industry, steel's biggest customer, which is heading toward its best year since 1955. Detroit would have been buying more steel lately-though not enough to revive the whole industry-had it not bought so much last winter as a hedge against a possible steel strike. Those supplies took quite a while to melt down. The automakers' stockpiles of steel are now close to the bone, and Detroit at long last is beginning to increase its orders...
...Looking at my things." Theodore Robinson wrote in his diary, "I feel pretty blue. There are glimmers here and there of refined good painting-but a woeful slackness-a lack of grasp, of inspiration, interest." Once, on seeing some of his paintings in an exhibition, he spluttered: "My things are bum with one exception, the girl sewing, which has something redeeming." Actually, Robinson was rarely slack and almost never bum: he was one 19th century American artist who deserves more than the comparative obscurity that has been his fate. Last week a welcome retrospective of his work (see color) opened...
Complaining that "you have to run a brokerage business today like an A. & P. store." Norris A. Broyles Sr., manager of E. F. Hutton & Co.'s Atlanta office, is trying to take up the slack by trading commodities and pushing municipal bonds and mutual funds. But according to the Investment Company Institute, sales of mutual funds dropped to a scant $154.8 million in August, down 23% from July and 37% below August 1961. Fund managers argued that the drop was largely the result of the recent Wharton School of Finance report which charged that mutual fund management fees...
...director of Streetcorner Research was Ralph Schwitzgebel, a former Harvard graduate student. He took over the project from its founder. Charles W. Slack, who left Harvard for an assistant professorship at the University of Alabama...