Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...question is what kinds of jobs we will provide--jobs for the next graduating class of the Harvard Graduate School of Design or jobs for graduates of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School," Sullivan said...
Irving Shapiro, a charter member, calls them the class of the '70s. They are the unique and rather brotherly band who became chief executives of some of America's largest corporations in the past decade, and by many measures they have changed the nation as much as did the clamorous '60s kids. These corporate chiefs are activists in society and politics, for they know that no company is an island; none can prosper for long if the country is unsound...
...quite a few leaders of the class of the '70s are about to make their valedictory. "We are all getting close to retirement age," says Shapiro, 63, who in 15 months has to leave the chairmanship of Du Pont, the chemicals colossus. "It will be a challenge for companies to produce the same kind of group in the 1980s...
...enters a milieu, that of working-class life, that the movies often bypass. Thomas Hacklin lives in Buffalo and works for a tire factory. His car is dilapidated, and the house his wife and kids inhabit (he is divorced) is, at best, humble. Life for him is a few beers with the boys after work, a Saturday-night dance at the union hall and a little amateur baseball on Sunday afternoon. As director, Caan reveals the character with a sympathy that never patronizes. As an actor, he shows him as a good-natured fellow sustained by simple loyalties. Hacklin...
Cyra McFadden's comic bestseller, The Serial, was as much journalism as satire. In order to devastate her prey, the trendy, upper-middle-class denizens of Marin County, Calif., McFadden did not resort to barbed wisecracks: she merely let her characters speak for themselves. Like Director-Writer Paul Mazursky in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, she understood that the affluent, desperate hipsters of the Far West are their own worst enemies. There is no point in making fun of people who are already self-parodies...