Word: murrayism
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Round up Wolfe's previous subjects if you will, and you find they are all either outlaws or outcasts. Murray the K, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Mick Jagger, Cassius Clay, Junior Johnson, Carol Doda, Natalie Wood, Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady- even, within such a context, Hugh Hefner. Certainly all worthy of Who's Who, but hardly New York's Four Hundred. That most of the personalities on Wolfe's little list are also celebrities is a testament to the sheer force of their outlandishness. They've forced fame to conform to their standards: their success the result of their...
...economic debates. It will neither go away nor, usually, assume any definite shape. The idea that the Government should try to guide private wage and price decisions into noninflationary paths has been urged on reluctant White House leaders by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Assistant Treasury Secretary Murray Weidenbaum, many private economists, some foreign central bankers, and a growing number of President Nixon's big-business supporters. Few of these advocates have specified what form an incomes policy should take or how tough it should...
...works over the largest territory, smashing the idols of all time. At one point he credits the Robin Hood legend to a press agent and explains that the altruistic robber actually "stole from everybody and kept everything." He reminds us of Shakespeare's flop play, "Queen Alexandra and Murray," which "closed in Egypt...
...Magdalene (Yvonne Elliman) has been etched in melodically with Puccini-like tenderness, and the rollicking minstrel beat under the Apostles' chant, "What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening," is a Cakewalk of pure joy. The swinging gospel-rock music sung by Judas (Tenor Murray Head) brings him brilliantly to nagging, skeptical, near-paranoid life. Sound effects add to a building sense of drama: the listener hears the slap of 39 lashes over a satiric rock beat, as well as the noise of nails being driven into the cross...
...Murray said that the psychiatric division includes only two women among 18 psychotherapists...