Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing less than candid. He spells out the strategy for us. "The Weatherman attack on the CFIA," he writes, "made the subsequent Guided Tour much more palatable." On that occasion, rudeness and insolence toward teachers, contemptuous flouting of the rights of fellow students, disorderly and potentially dangerous behavior-all things that would have been severely and properly punished-suddenly became acceptable. The victims of this abuse found solace in the thought that it could have been worse; and they were joined in this by their colleagues, who found further comfort in the hope or assumption that this kind of thing...
...professional advertising machine went to work to produce a genuine hit. A woman with a breathy voice made a series of subtle ads ("Vixen-is she woman or animal"-pant-pant) for the local radio stations. By August the theater owners knew they were riding a good thing. So many tourists were flocking to the show that the owners could jack the prices to twice their original level...
...McCurdy doesn't deny the role of favorite. "Frankly, we're looking past this one. That may be a dangerous thing to do, but you can't get worked up about all of them," he explained...
DUNCAN GOT ALMOST as much material assistance from NBC. Nikon, and Leitz as Thien gets every month from Nixon. No corporation was able to give Duncan the one thing he needed more than any other-a good...
Getchell was disappointed after the game, but not overly concerned. "If you don't score yourself, you don't deserve to win. We just had a bad day, that's all. We didn't do anything right today, but we aren't going to change a thing next week," he said...