Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these paltry times of inconspicuous consumption, when the rich no longer recognize their obligation to entertain the poor by erecting Rhenish castles and commissioning steam yachts, a book such as this guide to posh deserves the Jay Gould Award for Public Service. It is already a bestseller-which gives Stephen Birmingham, author of Our Crowd, the distinction of having two books on the Big List simultaneously. The dust jacket of The Right People describes it as "an important, authoritative work of serious social comment." Fortunately, this is nonsense. The Right People is malicious storytelling, leavened by gossip, and puts...
...airports while they go someplace else to shop. Some airports, to keep kids in hand, have opened amusement arcades, kiddy rides and souvenir shops, which turn many a city's aerial gateway into a carnival. Says one airport executive: "Where you don't hate something to entertain the kids they write all over the walls. You do it as a defensive measure...
White sat out World War II in an Irish farmhouse, and later settled on Alderney in the Channel Islands. He learned how to sail, and he learned the deaf-blind language so that, year after year, he could entertain members of a deaf-blind society whom he invited to Alderney. In 1957 he revised The Once and Future King, softening a nasty lampoon of his nasty mother (Queen Morgause, the witch...
...followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention. To his family, Disney was a genius to be pampered; to his business associates, he was the boss to be yessed. His meticulously cultivated public image remains that of the sort of magician often hired to entertain at children's birthday parties-a milk-and-cookies Mandrake complete with slick hair and slim mustache...
...world had hardly learned of Martin Luther King's murder in Memphis before speculation began that the civil rights leader had been the victim of a well-planned conspiracy. The rumor mills were lubricated in part by the assiduously cultivated doubts that some still entertain about the killing of John F. Kennedy. In this case, however, the conspiracy theorists could point to the fact that, though the gunman was clearly identified, he remained -for all the far-flung resources of the FBI-mysteriously at large...