Word: waywardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Until World War II contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech...
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Until World War II contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought the Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II, "the Whiz Kids," and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech...
...with the celebrities and movie stars he has invited. There are other types about, too. The honored guests at the Portland, Ore., opening threw furniture into the swimming pool and made off with the portrait of Hilton that hangs in every Hilton lobby. At the New York opening, some wayward members of the press took their whisky by the bottle instead of the drink, someone painted a swastika on a Dong Kingman mural and the overzealous door guards tried to keep out Mayor Wagner. In Rotterdam all the lights went out while most of the guests were dressing...
Adult amazement at the wayward bussing and bedding of today's youth is worldwide. But it expresses itself differently in different regions. In the U.S., a land flowing with milk and sociology, it has induced oleaginous teenage columns. In Europe, where literature is still thought to have a lingering relevance to life, it has resulted in a whole writing genre, as often as not penned by the troubled and troubling young themselves...
...successes, its career has been scarred by long periods of turbulence. Seven seasons under the pleasant direction of Dimitri Mitropoulos dimmed its luster, with audience, musicians and critics all bickering over the orchestra's wayward course. When Bernstein took over in 1958, the Philharmonic began to recapture the audience that it had not had since its "Golden Era" under Toscanini in the '30s. As the only American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra, Bernstein brought the Philharmonic new esprit and quieted its cranky audience. But soon his St. Vitus conducting technique upset even his fans; to many...