Word: suppressant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judgment, the situation is getting worse instead of better." Outward. Dodd, who has heard his fill of TV talk, could not suppress a gnawing complaint: "You all seem to use the same terminology-to think alike-and to jam this stuff down people's throats." Men of good will who object to all this sex and violence, he added, are promptly sacked by all three networks. This time, it was ABC-TV's boss Thomas W. Moore who spoke the industry's bland philosophy. "They come and they go," he said, "through revolving doors...
...with some $20 million already sunk in the seemingly bottomless Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox had scant choice but to try to make a virtue of the peccadilloes of its irreplaceable star. Where Fox President Spyros Skouras last month jetted to Rome in a frantic effort to suppress Liz's infatuation for Burton, the studio now turned resignedly wry. Joining in the tastelessness, Cleopatra Director Joseph Mankiewicz, himself an often-reported Liz diversion, deadpanned: "The real truth is that I am in love with Burton and Miss Taylor is the cover-up for us." Fox flacks, who before the divorce...
...tormented life of the playwright Johan August Strindberg, the darkest time fell between the years 1893 and 1895. The government of his native Sweden-"the land of the nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy...
...Poggi, who had been drafting a decree naming himself President, hastened to cross-examine Guido until he was convinced that the new President would not stand in the way of a drive to annul the elections that the Perónistas won, smash Perónista trade unions, and suppress Perónism completely...
...dollar, which is one reason why textile stocks are selling below their book values and why textile wages are 20% below the U.S. manufacturing average of $2.10 an hour. With foreign textile wages lower yet, U.S. textilemen complain that they are now being overwhelmed by imports and want to suppress them. But, since imports have only 5% of the U.S. market, a few industry leaders are coming to realize that the anti-import argument does not wash too well...