Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel Bell, a city is "syncretistic" and New York is an exemplary "palimpsest." Shadows of that city's three historic "faces" remain part of its character: the 19th century port city; the "nervously swift" manufacturer at the turn of the century; and the settling place for "glass house" corporations in the 1950's. And with the mushrooming of the "culture hungry" class, Bell sees the "face" of the '60's and '70's forming: New York as the cultural city...
...JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A biography by a writer who knows his Swift, and is aware, also, of the grim literary and Freudian exegeses that have clouded his brilliant satires...
...JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
Russia's flirtation with market mechanisms comes at a time of swift and startling economic change across the whole Communist-bloc spectrum. Hotel lobbies from Warsaw to Bucharest are jammed with Western businessmen scrambling to get into Communist markets. The "imperialist agents" are getting an interested reception in ways unthinkable a few years before. Negotiators for West Germany's giant Krupp empire last week were tidying up a deal to build plants in Poland that will be German-owned but will employ Polish labor, and Hungary and Rumania have expressed lively interest in similar permanent, paying capitalist boarders...
...snigger of contemporary bedroom farce. Nor does it necessarily appeal even to sophisticated tastes; it is for those who prefer mountain brooks to mainstreams. But it is strong, dark laughter, echoing-if not equaling-the bitter merriment to which other ages moved Juvenal, Rabelais and Swift...