Word: manned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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High-Voltage Sales. Cornfeld started I.O.S. 14 years ago as a one-man firm in a Paris flat. Today it has grown into the world's largest financial sales organization, with 16,000 salesmen and 800,000 clients in 110 countries. Despite the natural resistance created by falling stock and mutual-fund prices, the high-voltage organization last year almost doubled its sales, to $3.1 billion. Just under $1 billion in cash flowed into the company's coffers. I.O.S. not only manages eleven mutual funds of its own but has spread into almost every major field of finance...
...most people love great works of art. On the contrary, most people find great works of art oppressive, since such works invariably center on the nature of human destiny, and that destiny is tragic. Quite simply, Hamlet is a world, and like the world, it cannot be ignored. Every man has lived some part of the play, and to be a man is to be inextricably involved in the play. Hamlet probes and grips the profound themes of existence-death, love, time, fidelity, friendship, family, the relationships of a man and a woman, a son and father, a mother...
Dramatic Vise. This is a filmed version of the play (TIME, Feb. 28, 1969), and Williamson is a man of the theater in the same way that a tiger is a creature of the jungle. This means that he transcends the celluloid and holds the audience in a dramatic vise. His eyes sear the viewer. He is not speaking to the air; he is speaking to you. As far as Williamson is concerned, elocution be damned. Poetry be damned. Meaning is all. Never has Hamlet been rendered with more clarity or more biting timeliness, and that includes Gielgud, Olivier...
...Hoffman, he was airlifted from off-Broadway to Rome for Madigan's Millions and given a fast $5,000 for his first film role as a fumbling, bumbling G-man. Today he could light his cigars with bills of that size-and may be tempted to put his screen debut to the same use. At first glance, he can hardly be blamed. The movie's garish color and lighting would give an aspirin a headache, and its flubbed, dubbed screenplay is sheer, towering Babel. Yet here and there are some amusing hints of the ludicrous student who became...
...what can Phillips possibly say about the Depression? First, the throat-clearing generalization: "Some authorities describe it as the ultimate collapse of the industrial revolution, with the machine devouring man." Then on to the insatiate facts: one family in five had $3,000 to spend in 1932, the average weekly wage of factory workers was $16.21, the cost of a Chevy was $445, etc. The New Deal becomes a kind of family album of brain-truster portraits, with a few hasty tributes from Old Liberal Phillips. For instance: "Social Security was the most profound and the most enduring" of F.D.R...