Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLOWS.") But Wolfe's dedication to the minute is real enough, and extremely articulate. He is fascinated by California where the Free-way has broken up the quantitative thought patterns of Western Civilization by forcing men to measure distance by time rather than miles. He chronicles every strange twist and turn of a fully motorized America and its departure--since World War II--from a basically land-oriented state of mind, which he can persuasively argue was vestigial feudalism, to a totally disoriented materialism. He celebrates "age segregation," the war and post-war generations' cult of self which, even...
...Time to Shave. That twist was enough to do it. The same day Alcoa President John D. Harper hurried from Pittsburgh to McNamara's mammoth third-floor office in the Pentagon's guarded E ring, began negotiating for a truce. Harper was back in the Pentagon the next day, too, and he and McNamara also spoke several times by telephone. At 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Harper phoned McNamara from Pittsburgh to surrender: Alcoa would cancel its price boosts. Lest the company change its mind overnight, McNamara called in newsmen for a 9:45 conference, acting so quickly...
...cranapple juice, frozen orange-cranberry juice, a whole range of cranberry-camfruit jellies, and cranberry-orange relish. Tie-ins have added cranberry sauce to Swanson frozen dinners and cranberry muffins to Betty Crocker's ready-mix line. Sophisticated drinkers are trying the Cape Codder (vodka, cranberry juice, a twist of lemon), and Arthur Godfrey, himself a Cape Cod cranberry grower, last week urged his listeners to try cranberry juice...
Pickwick. Charles Dickens is becoming an author in name only. His theatrical adapters are rapidly divesting him of his works. Two seasons ago, Oliver Twist was pilfered and became Oliver Exclamation Mark. Now the musical-forgery squad has cribbed a few episodes from The Pickwick Papers. To vulgarize the dead is bad enough, but Pickwick does something worse-it anesthetizes the living...
...Harvey. "The Russians haven't turned over everything to the U.S." about her son's stay in the Soviet Union, she said. "I thought that, being his mother, I might build up enough evidence to ask that this case be reopened." By some morbid twist, one Oswald letter from Russia expressing bitterness against the U.S. sold for $3,000 at the Manhattan autograph hawker's auction. Three letters from Jackie Kennedy to Actor Basil Rathbone went...