Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...posted nonetheless. He merely spot-checks the four newspapers* delivered daily to his office, spending more time on the sports pages than anything else. But a four-man staff headed by Speechwriter Pat Buchanan does a great deal of reading and filtering for the President. By 8 o'clock each morning, Buchanan delivers to the President's desk a digest of significant news and commentary. If the President is traveling, the digest is wired...
That unfinished business includes a list of goals that nearly all women liberationists agree on. They want equal pay for equal work, and a chance at jobs traditionally reserved for men only. They seek nationwide abortion reform ?ideally, free abortions on demand. They desire round-the-clock, state-supported child-care centers in order to cut the apron strings that confine mothers to unpaid domestic servitude at home. The most radical feminists want far more. Their eschatological aim is to topple the patriarchal system in which men by birthright control all of society's levers of power?in government...
...mystique." Still more outspoken is Male Chauvinist of the Week Hugh E. Geyer, a Morristown, N.J., executive: "They've got nothing to do all day?just push this button and push that button. What the hell does a healthy woman do all day besides rush home at 5 o'clock and give the old bastard a beer? I just can't stomach the laziness of women." Margaret Mead, though in sympathy with most of the movement's aims, offers a caution: "Women's Liberation has to be terribly conscious about the danger of provoking men to kill women. You have...
...their heads in the sand in hopes the cartridge will go away-just like their first reaction to television." Yet Guber insists that when "the cartridge revolution" strikes, the Hollywood work force, now 40% unemployed, will not only expand but scramble to make films in three shifts around the clock...
Szell was an extraordinary pianist, and though he could not play a single orchestral instrument, he knew exactly what each could do, often proving he knew more about it than the players themselves. His beat was sharply defined and unfailing as an atomic clock. He was a scholar with a mania for research and a memory that neatly stored away the data in mental cubbyholes for instant retrieval. Though he cared deeply for paintings and literature and was a gourmet, music was his passion. Everything and everybody, including himself, was to be sacrificed to its perfection. He was fearsome, unforgiving...