Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KINGSLEY AMIS...
Lucky Jim was a likable chap indeed. But since his appearance in 1954, critics and readers have remarked the spreading "swinishness" of Kingsley Amis characters-as well as the distaste the author seems to feel for his own creations. It has always been noted in extenuation that literary satire thrives on vile bodies and that swinishness justifies a measure of pique. But now Amis stands revealed as a misanthrope sans merci. From Ending Up it is clear that if anyone asked him the old vaudeville question "Would you hit a lady with a baby?" Amis might gleefully reply...
Although there is evidence that older people are conservative by nature, Berkeley Sociologist Kingsley Davis points out that "some of the wildest political schemes ever known have been advocated by lobbies of the elderly and some of the most atavistic movements, such as the Nazi movement in Germany, were manned by dogmatic youth." Moreover, definitions of what is conservative change with the times. Social Security and Medicare, favorite issues of the elderly, were once considered radical notions. In Sweden, a low birth rate has raised the age level of the population without altering its essentially liberal outlook...
...world's three "great newspapers" (TIME, Aug. 28). Washington Post Editorial Writer Stephen Rosenfeld, an ex-Eagle staffer, thinks that Bagdikian was "charmed as an outsider to discover that there exists in the Berkshires a paper that appeals to the New York Times reader." Eagle Managing Editor Kingsley ("Rex") Fall says: "We're proud of what we do, and we hope we're getting better, but I prefer to treat the Bagdikian reference as some sort of mild joke." Joke or not, the commendation reminded other small-city papers of what they might become...
...Company was not exactly a model of probity. Most of its funds came from the cities treasuries, but under its charter it was entirely controlled by private shareholders--which was not terribly surprising. The original impetus for a bridge came from a profit-minded contractor named William C. Kingsley, a good friend of Boss McLaughijn of Brooklyn...