Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fame has a way of ruining a writer's reputation. Take the case of Kurt Vonnegut, who became a cult figure in the late '60s after enduring years of hard-earned obscurity. A growing army of high school and college readers began proclaiming him a deep thinker, at about the same time that critics started cuffing him for being a shallow artist. Both judgments were wrong. Vonnegut has never written a thought that could not occur to a sporadically meditative teenager, nor has he pretended to; those who are impressed by the profundity of a shrug...
Horner said she hopes freshmen would not take Mark Twain's advice that it is "better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and dispel all doubt" too seriously...
Last month, before Chrysler struck its self-sacrificing pose, its lobbyist Tommy Boggs sat for a photographer at his sprawling desk. Boggs asked him not to take any pictures of his walnut bar stocked with the best scotch and whiskey, gin and vodka...
...politicians then took a studiedly stern look at Chrysler's proposal. After all, barging into the free market system on behalf of a declining concern violated every tenet of what is supposed to be America's survival-of-the-fittest economy. And the politicians seemed to take a hard line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan...
...HILL, there was substantial sympathy for some form of aid. Worried about jobs and competition in the auto industry, some liberals saw the Chrysler failure as an opportunity for the government to take control of a major auto corporation, which could be used to keep the other companies honest. Some, like Sen. Don Riegle (D-Mich.), who has more than 85,000 constituents employed by Chrysler, were just plainworried by the prospect of a rash of plant closings...