Word: waterman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While sterile disposability and space-age technology have their place, that place is not in your hand. Today, you are a fountain pen. Modern in its sense of history, the fountain pen has been the stylus of choice since 1884, when the first workable model was invented by L.E. Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman. Its undisputed flow dried up 60 years later, when, thinking "time is money," the man in the gray flannel suit ushered in the ball point pen introducing a new level of corporatization and homogenization to America. In the years following, America flourished...
...addition to earning Moynihan national headlines, the positive coverage contributed to popular support for his policy ideas, according to Waterman...
...partisan group has formed in support of the principles he outlined in the speech," Waterman says...
...From our perspective the speeches that are done there...get great coverage down here [in Washington]," Waterman says...
...When you have an audience of students, you're going to have an un-political speech in the sense that it will be about ideas and policy," Waterman says...