Word: stern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal spirit. Now, in the winter of its agony, Dubcek has increasingly become the symbol of compromise and collaboration. Bending to the will of his Soviet overlords, how ever reluctantly, Dubcek has moved into the forefront of those who are shaping the country's return to stern Communist orthodoxy...
...Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face - the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose - seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message that middle-class values...
...those with more fundamental values. Kenneth Ward, senior vice president of Hayden Stone, expects a rising interest in steel, chemical, airline and utility stocks, which should do better than high flyers in a quieter economic climate. "For the short term, the speculative boom is over," says Research Director Walter Stern of Burnham & Co. "Too many people have been buying too many stocks for the wrong reasons. There has been a race for instant profit based on tips and stories of impending deals. The bubble has to burst...
...with professional expertise and ersatz emotion. Among the best and most successful recent examples are Arthur Hailey's Hotel and Airport. Next year, intrepid fiction reporters will go inside such serious installations as hospitals (The Death Committee by Noah Gordon), the aircraft industry (Brood of Eagles by Richard Stern), and the construction of a New York skyscraper (The Builders by William Woolfollc...
...hard World War II militarists of Japan. Then Kurosawa figured that running the Imperial Japanese war machine was not so different from running the country's large businesses. Only high decision-making executives, he says, could have the style, the class and the personality of yesterday's stern naval officers...