Word: thrifting
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...simply has made a few mistakes." The President's new attitude signaled to businessmen that he and his Administration have come to believe in one guiding but generally overlooked principle of the New Deal's favorite economist, John Maynard Keynes: "The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift but Profit...
...Thrift Key is a plastic gadget, like the old key on the sardine can, that fits on the end of a tube of toothpaste, shaving cream, glue or anchovy paste, rolls up the bottom of the tube as the contents are used, and ensures that none of the product is wasted. Manufactured by Crawford Industries, Ltd., New York. Price...
Even the man who wants to throw out furniture can turn it into a tax benefit. By donating furniture or clothes to a thrift shop run by a charity (there are 36 such shops in New York City alone) he can deduct the fair market value...
...three significant plays emerge as historic steps in the development of absurd theater. The first was Ubu Roi, performed in Paris in 1896, and written by Alfred Jarry, a 23-year-old bourgeois baiter. Ubu is a pear-shaped buffoon-monster and a travesty on middle class values, e.g., thrift, family life, patriotism. He punctuates every third line of dialogue with an excremental word. Ubu Roi furnished the absurdists with their basic attitude: shock the bourgeoisie and slam the Establishment. In a 1923 play, In the Jungle of the Cities, Bertolt Brecht furnished the theater of the absurd with...
...other hand, the great Protestant teachers were wary of wealth and worldliness. Diligence and thrift they enjoined, writes Samuelsson, but so did Roman Catholics in the same mercantile age. And thrift did not make capitalism; it was enterprise that founded the great fortunes and industries. Even Horatio Alger, Samuelsson points out, always had his pious little lads get into the big money by "a gigantic inheritance, left to his hero by some previously unknown relative, or a gift from a multimillionaire who felt the virtuous boy to be worthy of a reward. Thrift and diligence were adequate instruments for winning...