Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the President complained about the congressional spending spree to Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader gave him some blunt advice: "You've lectured the business commu nity, you've lectured the grocers, and you've lectured the housewives. You've lectured everyone but the right crowd -the members of your own party...
...mouths. Occasionally, they seem to be speaking less for themselves than for a troubled generation in toto. But Director Michael Winner masks the deficiency, coolly catching the feverish, gotta-keep-busy restlessness of youth on the go. Wherever the action is, from ballroom to boardwalk to a beachside spree in which a bride-and-groom are burned in effigy. Winner gives a commanding end-of-summer air to every moment...
...beginning was 1959, and the word was happening. Drawing on the antics of Dadaism and surrealism, Manhattan Artist Allan Kaprow decided to stage a series of highly unorthodox, one-shot performances for a handful of friends in Greenwich Village. Read the invitation: "Think of a buying spree at Macy's; how to grow geraniums in New York. Do not look for paintings, sculpture, the dance or music...
Standbys & Sewers. The tax-and-spend spree has been touched off by population growth and urbanization (see THE NATION), and the rising demand for services. Of the $75 billion spent in a year by states and localities, about 17% went for roads, 10% for welfare, 41% for schools. One-third of the money came from bond issues and federal grants, the rest from taxes. Of the 47 state legislatures in session last year, 32 approved tax increases...
...felt that it would help his political future if Lockheed won the contract for the C-5A transport; after a visit to the White House, Russell exultantly leaked the news two days before it was supposed to become official. Lockheed's 22,000 Marietta employees celebrated with a spree of buying autos, appliances, houses and summer cottages...