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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naming the hard case played by Frank Sinatra. They called him Danny Ocean. This not only permits a title too baffling to leave the mind easily; it offers a straight line for any number of jokes (Sinatra an ocean? He ain't even a Scotch and water, etc...
...going to hear a great deal about "growth," but I venture to say that neither party will dare to say a word about the greatest single obstacle to growth, namely the opposition of almost all labor unions to increasing production. Federal money for schools, housing, sewage disposal, etc. would be trivial compared with the growth that would be brought about if organized labor took its foot off the brake...
...employees, some 44,000 are foreign nationals working abroad. This mix sometimes presents problems. In Morocco, faced with native snack-bar waiters who spoke only Arabic, the PX had to set up a system of poker chips to place orders: red for a hamburger, blue for coffee, etc...
...Cultural Freedom: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse." Nor any words to that general effect. What I said (smiling or possibly even laughing) was that writing about mass culture for the mass audience (e.g., such bestsellers as The Status Seekers, The Organization Man, etc.) had become the latest form of pornography-"the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse." Such sociologizing books and articles have nothing to do with literature...
...legendary West, women are supposed to be out of place except possibly as dance-hall girls. In fact, social historians have built an entire theory of American male behavior (putting women on pedestals, etc.) on the notion that females were scarce and cherished in the old West. The theory is open to question. This book, for one, suggests that, in the West as elsewhere, behind the man behind the gun stood a little woman...