Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shana is not quite sure what McCall's needs. After a succession of male editors and a dip in advertising pages, McCall's management was apparently in agreement when she told them: "I thought the trouble with women's magazines is that they have been underestimating women all these years, and I wasn't even sure that I believed in the idea of a women's magazine. I said I thought there should just be good magazines, period. Maybe I'm kind of a latter-day feminist, but I think that women can take...
...image for 15 years, but it quit a few months ago in disagreement over fundamental tactics. Hill & Knowlton had engineered the defensive, low-profile approach, under which the industry minimized its public involvement in the health controversy. That put the firm at odds with some industry chiefs, who thought that it was time for a more aggressive approach in promoting the case for cigarettes...
...John Cheever's new novel-in which a boy barely escapes being turned into a gasoline-soaked torch on the altar of an Episcopal church-the reader is assured that everything is going to be "as wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful as it had been." Lest it be thought that this is an attempt to fill the current American prescription for a tragedy with a pain-killing happy ending, it should be made clear that Cheever means by his four "wonderfuls" very much the same bitter things conveyed in the famous five "nothings" of King Lear. There are no dizzy...
...dominant character istics-passionate monogamy, joy in small things, and especially in his inarticulate love for his teen-age son Tony-a kind of befuddled blessedness. It is a quality not unlike Billy Budd's, all the more vulnerable because it is unaware of evil. "Nailles thought of pain and suffering," Cheever writes, "as a principality lying somewhere beyond the legitimate borders of western Europe...
Fenton said he could not be certain because of the confusion, but that he thought it was the IDA employee who hit Rudenstine. Fenton witnessed the scuffle...