Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not great Condon, but it is good Condon. The murdered dude was a whiz-bang insurance salesman, the best-dressed knight of the Million Dollar Round Table and a sure bet to pull down $ 150,000 a year. Naturally his wife wants him back. Using a computerized electronic prayer wheel that she whips up with her soldering iron, she petitions all gods ancient and modern, known or rumored, and becomes (to the surprise of the gods themselves) the first soul in recorded eternity to get a message through...
...executive vice president and, since the founding of the company in 1937, its senior engineer. The surprise was not merely that Land finally anointed a possible successor, but also that McCune's new job did not go to General Manager Thomas Wyman, 45. A sales and administrative whiz who came to Polaroid ten years ago from the Nestle Co., Wyman had been widely regarded as the heir apparent. But just before McCune's promotion was announced, Wyman quit to accept the president's job at the Green Giant food company in Le Sueur, Minn. Wyman denied strenuously...
...like Mark Twain: he wanted to be some important business whiz and finally that drove him crazy. And Twain didn't even have people like Twain as precedents. It's easy to have a take on the whole success syndrome...
...disinterested baseball lovers at Harvard, I suspect I would have to learn how to read only those box-scores that are over ten years old, to develop a compassion for the charred skeleton of Connie Mack Stadium, to preserve the line- ups of the Hitless Wonders and the Whiz Kids, to prepare a comparison of Satchel Paige and Walter Johnson...
...Jewish suburb of Baltimore, and a large part of the audience consisted of middle-aged, middle class businessmen whose backgrounds could not have differed much from that of Cohen. It seemed a bit strange to me when these men chuckled at the rapid accumulation of bones by the capitalist whiz kid in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. How could people who agree with Cohen's statement, and who have similar experiences, laugh at a teenage boy who cheats, lies, threatens, and eventually forges checks in an effort to be a success in the business world...