Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year, but as the mother of two of them I can't help being frightened. I fail to see much real altruism or idealism in my children or their friends. I see, rather, a perverted, sentimental self-centeredness. They may castigate us for money-and success-grubbing, but their attitude is, "Just go right on grubbing and keep that money flowing, old drudges, because we are too fine and sensitive to drudge or do without...
What they got was Operation Exodus, a group of parents who, without pay, and without much professional help, are busing more than 800 children out of predominantly Negro areas such as Roxbury into schools elsewhere in the city. Exodus' success in the Negro community has been startling. Its enrollment this year is almost double that of last, and there is a waiting list. The parents have done more than supervising the busing; from their storefront office on Roxbury's Blue Hill Avenue, they have started tutorial and recreational programs...
...industrial states. Beset by an $83 million budget deficit, a dearth of new business, and a 25% drop in employment during the previous six years, Ohio set out to do something about its sluggish economy. Since then, no other state has wooed industry with quite as much ardor-or success. Last year Ohio lured an estimated $2.1 billion in new industrial investment, the best such performance ever by any state...
Died. Albert Monroe Greenfield, 79, head of City Stores Co. (Manhattan's W. & J. Sloane and 131 other stores in 19 states) from 1932 until his retirement in 1959, a shrewd Ukrainian-born entrepreneur who added another star to the galaxy of U.S. success stories by building a real estate (largely in Philadelphia) and retailing business that today grosses $850 million annually and provided him with a fortune estimated at close to $100 million; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
...good writing is somehow a function of national power and prosperity and a product of the consensus that goes with them. The U.S. is represented not by Virgilian celebrators of the Great Society but by outsiders dog-paddling against the mainstream of American life. If American society is a success, no one would know it from this anthology. Unless it is Louis Auchincloss (unrepresented here), the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant has no laureate and, unless it is John O'Hara (also unrepresented), no candid friend. The voice of America...