Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Book Award (for Steps) and who is now a professor of prose and criticism at Yale. Kosinski's hero, Jonathan Whalen, is sole heir to one of the nation's great industrial fortunes, and to a remarkably ordinary set of psychological wounds. Whalen's father, a tycoon now dead, gave his son insufficient attention, and seems thereby to be the villain of the story-unless the villain is the new industrial state, or Western civilization itself...
When does a pastime become a life-sustaining passion? For Yachtsman Cornelius ("Kees") Bruynzeel, a Dutch timber tycoon, it began when he set his first sail at age five. Now, at 73, Bruynzeel still has an acute case of sea fever. But it is tempered by a serious heart condition. Nonetheless, he was determined to enter this year's prestigious Capetown-to-Rio yacht race if it killed him. The 3,500-mile ocean grind might do exactly that, Bruynzeel's doctors warned; they ordered him to remain on the dock. He refused, explaining that a bracing...
Despite the ethnic theme, the whole affair will be a showcase of the nation's wealthiest men. Nearly all of Nixon's friends with big bank accounts will be there, including his Florida neighbor Bebe Rebozo, Chicago Insurance Tycoon and Republican Campaign Contributor W. Clement Stone, and Robert Abplanalp, a manufacturer of aerosol valves. It will be a celebration of Middle America and the successful men it has produced. For those taking part, it will be a ritual of satisfaction, a three-day dance to affluence and the American dream...
Larry Bryggman gives Kurt a set of bobbing eyebrows and poses which sometimes seem too stiff, too prolonged even for a tycoon from the age of Rockefeller. At times his politeness grows strident and reveals the exploiter that lurks beneath, but never quite clearly enough...
Screams. Then Burt Zien, the Milwaukee plumbing and heating tycoon who had organized the affair, took over. "Okay, you fellas know why you're here," he began. He painted a sorry picture of McGovern's finances and stepped up the pressure: "He needs money fast?very fast. He has to tie down television time and pay travel bills. Soliciting pledges through the mail and collecting them takes too much time. What we want you to do is to loan McGovern money now. This will probably be the least-secured loan you'll ever make. There's no collateral...