Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gesture that seems both apologetic and pompous, Graham Greene has insisted that his light novels (those in which God does not have a speaking part) should be called "entertainments." The tag does not fit all light novels, because it carries the implication that the author can write much more deeply when he cares to. But it suits exactly the books of Iris Murdoch, a professional philosopher and former Oxford don. whose only equal as an entertainment writer is Greene himself...
...outside brands it now permits on its shelves. The chain's own Scotch, Black Swan, sells for $4.50 a fifth v. $5.60 for Johnnie Walker Red Label. To undersell Nescafe instant coffee (43?-46?), Prisunic imported a Dutch blend, slapped on its own label and a 40? price tag. "Our aim," says General Manager Jacques Gueden, 52, "is the same as that of American discount houses-to undersell small-store competitors...
...first such clinics is now one of the most relaxed places in that vast and forbidding pile. Its windows have no bars, its doors are unlocked. Its four doctors and six nurses are more informal than their colleagues elsewhere in the hospital. Only a neat little name tag marks them as "staff.'' Patients are kept busy with psychotherapy (some of it in groups), occupational therapy and their own chores. Nearly all receive drug treatment, though few now get shock...
What draws people to ragtime, Morath thinks, is that "it is happy music; it speaks of a time of tranquillity, reform, consolidation and harmony in our national life." He is particularly pleased that his audiences are so young. "If I found that only the tag end of another generation was interested," says Morath, "I'd have dropped it long ago." Which means...
Unfit Islanders. In De Gaulle's Europe, France is first, Germany second, and the rest nowhere-they can tag along respectfully as camp followers, with little more weight or voice than tiny Luxembourg. Britain is rejected as unfit economically or politically to join this band of continental brothers because it 1) is an offshore island, and 2) has "special ties" with the U.S. and the Commonwealth. To De Gaulle's jaundiced eye. the British attempt to enter the Common Market was simply a Trojan horse maneuver (an expression used with suspicious frequency in Parisian editorials and salons last...