Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from many parts of the U.S. to meet regularly, usually at Dreyfus' Manhattan headquarters, to discuss inflation and the economy, the problems of the brokerage business and the future structure of the exchanges. Among the men who attend the four-hour sessions are Thomas Reeves of Investors Diversified Services, Wellington Fund's John Bogle, Mellon Bank's Lloyd Pederson, InterCapital's Fred Stein (no kin), and Kidder, Peabody's Ralph De-Nunzio, who is vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Wellington, Longford
Those suspicions were satirized last week by Punch. "Do we, the heirs of Nelson and Wellington, really want obedient, heel-clicking Teutonic plumbers from Essen to come here and louse up centuries of history with their ridiculous passion for efficiency?" the magazine demanded. "Do we want evil-smelling bus drivers from Lyons charging like madmen down the wrong side of Kensington High Street? Should we allow the Italians to turn us all into neurotic, vino-swigging worshippers of saints none of us has ever heard of? What is at stake is THE BRITISH WAY OF LIFE...
GENET, unable to adopt an unambivalent revolutionary stance, renders absurd the strident fury which grips the rebels, led by the vociferous Archibald Absalom Wellington. James Spruill, dynamicas Wellington, herds and coerces his wards like recalcitrant children. Only the black women, free from sexual ambivalence in their attitude toward the white Queen, can maintain a consistent level of vituperation and hatred. The ruling classes, perversely enough, are ennobled by their tenacious role consistency; directionless rage and degrading imitation is, in Genet's crypto-conservative vision, the lot of revolutionaries...