Word: flinging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...weeks aboard ship. The cruise sponsor, the Institute for New Motivations, has decreed that we will be without tobacco, subject to endless lectures and exhortations by psychologists, defenseless against encounter-group leaders and a hypnotist who is all but guaranteed to free us from our habit. A few fling matches and even treasured lighters into the Hudson. Others are caching cigarettes throughout the ship...
Gailbraith does well to emphasize the enormous concentrations of private socioeconomic power which thwart macroeconomic planning and continue inflation. A fling at price-wage controls, however, will not solve the crisis of modern liberalism. The country needs a full-scale commitment by a political party to run a government without the interest groups, break down private administrative conglomerates in the trades and professions, and restore a little more competition. It needs some old-fashioned Progressivism, interest-group trust-busting, and even a dose of Naderism before the next Democratic Administration can effectively plan and execute policy...
Heaven and Hell. As for judgment -to Eliot, alas, that mostly means deciding whether to take a last fling at government service. After pages and pages of squinting at the traps behind the enticements, Eliot turns down the offer to be a minister of state. For readers who know their prudent, prudent Eliot, the suspense is less than killing...
Some of the episodes are already familiar: the mutiny led by Editor Clay Blair and Wall Street Investor Marvin Kantor against Culligan, which ended with all three walking the plank; the fling at "sophisticated muckraking," which ended in the Post's losing a $460,000 libel suit and some of its good reputation; the advent of Ackerman, who arrived like the U.S. Cavalry, complete with his own bugle call-"I am 36 years old, and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Co. rich again...
Spreading Word. Verkade wanted to be a commercial artist in advertising, but failed the entrance exam at Amsterdam's Rietveld art academy. After a brief fling with abstract painting, he turned to figurative sculpture at the Royal Academy in The Hague, then started out in a tiny studio near Haarlem. One day last summer, Photographer David Douglas Duncan saw Verkade's bronzes, was impressed, bought some and began telling collector friends about his discovery. Word spread quickly. During one three-week period, Verkade received orders from America for nearly 40 statues...