Word: waywardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. One of England's most gifted young playwrights plants two brothers and a scurvy, aging tramp in a junk-cluttered room, where they become entwined in an ambiguous relationship of spite, pride, dependence and rejection that richly epitomizes the wayward condition...
...Italian upper class, L'Avventura studies an individual, not a class. It unfolds through personalities instead of tiresome figures transplanted from an Every-man play. And even more gratifying, this gracefully wrought story reveals a person whose uniqueness is respected: it is not a discombobulated tirade against a wayward society...
...explain away their puzzlement, economists drag out a raft of possible reasons for the wayward consumer, including unseasonable September heat and storms, less aggressive selling by auto dealers fearful that Detroit strikes might leave them with no cars to deliver, and a 2% drop in August housing starts that meant less demand for heavy appliances. But a more basic explanation comes from University of Michigan Economist George Katona, whose Survey Research Center believes that the consumer has lost much of his confidence in the resiliency of U.S. business. "Not surprising," says Katona, "after two recessions [1958 and 1960-61] occurring...
...presented with a paperback called The Press, by A.J. Liebling, and I am still depressed by books about newspapers. This latest entry into the field isn't even a book; it is merely a collection of Liebling's "Wayward Press" articles from the New Yorker. There is nothing particularly edifying about 284 pages of ancient New Yorker articles laid end to end, and Liebling's "book," by resuscitating old failures, contributes little toward a solution to the problems of the American press...
Harvard's firm administrative control over unrestricted funds has more to do with her greatness, in my judgment, than any other aspect of her constitutional tradition except the freedom of her faculty, her students and her wayward press. The Corporation and the Administration may be right or wrong, but they can never be irresponsible. No other final judgement than theirs must govern the distribution of unrestricted funds, and one element in this judgment must always be the availability of other money. The basic Harvard document on this point fittingly bears the signature of the late Learned Hand...