Word: stratagem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Classic Lines. The gods were more elaborately and profoundly explored in Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle. These stories are in his lesser mode. In fact, the stratagem of treating suburbia as if it were a sacred grove, with every flowering tree an imprisoned nymph, works best when it is worked least. One story, for instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon...
...Pushkin, for my stratagem...
...turned them in. Words were changed. Sometimes whole scenes were struck out by some thick-fingered fur salesman who had never read anything more difficult than a ledger. Sizzling from Hollywood's ignominies (and loaded with Hollywood's gold), Scriptwriter Shaw last year at last devised a stratagem to baffle the barbarians. He wrote a picture and then produced it himself-at a cost of about a million. This is it and he loves it. "For the first time," he says proudly, "I have a feeling that a movie is mine...
...million Negroes have more income ($27 billion annually) than ever-and some pragmatic beliefs about spending it. "The quickest way to a white man's conscience," goes a favorite Negro saying, "is through his pocketbook." This may hit the mark, because the most successful Negro civil rights stratagem so far has been neither sit-in nor lawsuit. Negro leaders, skirting restraint-of-trade laws, call the device "selective buying." It is really a consumer boycott, and it can be devastatingly effective...
Their disillusionment was the result of a stratagem that struck even the tolerant British as a disloyal act. Even before the marchers left Aldermaston, there appeared copies of a crudely mimeographed, twelve-page document headed: DANGER! OFFICIAL SECRET. Inside, its anonymous authors declared: "We are Spies for Peace. We have decided to publish an Official Secret. There are thousands more secrets in captivity. This is not the only one we shall release." The information it contained was, in fact, highly classified: the locations, code names and telephone numbers of twelve Regional Seats of Government from which British authorities would...