Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORNING, by Richard Bradford. The theme is familiar-an adolescent's search for manhood-but the telling, in this first novel, is tender and humorous...
...Great and revolutionary things are coming about in America today prompted by youth's impatience, but nonetheless implemented by mature men who have something going for them-life experience. But the tender balance can be destroyed by even a noisy minority, whose credo is destruction for kicks rather than maturity gained through the creation of a family and doing one's "thing" for the betterment of society as a whole...
...guinea pig, 40 rabbits, one turtle, one alligator turtle, 22 goldfish, 15 Hungarian pigeons and five chickens. A sea lion named "Sandy" was regretfully banished after it began chasing guests. Ethel, now 40, never quite lost her sense of wonder at being married to Bobby Kennedy. Their affection was tender, gay and companionable, and though she is terrified of airplanes, she went with him almost everywhere. For her, the supreme test of an individual's worth was simply whether her husband approved...
...best of these poems are searingly democratic and deeply committed to some new form of humanism that has yet to reveal a clear pattern in the wreckage of the old. The worn coin of alienation is still legal tender, though it appears to be passing into more active hands. Says Robert Haas, a 27-year-old San Franciscan whose poems gracefully bridge the concerns of traditional techniques with the growing influence of forthrightness and social consciousness: "It became clear to me that alienation was a state approaching to sanity, a way of being human in a monstrously inhuman world...
Gulf Resources' unusual growth is the result of two mergers. First, Allen paid out $18.5 million in stock to acquire Lithium Corp. of America, a New York-based mineral and chemical concern. He next made a tender offer for shares in far bigger Bunker Hill Co., an $83.2 million-a-year Idaho mining and smelting company. Bunker Hill spurned Allen's overtures, began dickering with two other prospective part ners. Undeterred, Allen coolly bought up its stock on the open market, by last February had a commanding 36% interest. The battle of Bunker Hill over, shareholders...