Word: sayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Promised: Challenge. Did the President, in his off-the-cuff answer, mean to say that freedom will inevitably win? Is 20th century American democracy, shining inheritor of Western Christian civilization, invincible if its citizens just continue to practice democracy...
Many another top executive sadly observes that the man who is brilliant in the boardroom is often a bore at the microphone. "Too many businessmen cannot give a speech; they have to make an address," says Chicago Executives' Club President Clint Youle, who has heard hundreds of them. "They speak on subjects so lofty they cannot say anything that has not been said umpteen times before." Furthermore, says one Florida executive, many businessmen are barely articulate, mumble in meaningless cliches (some favorites: "broadly defined policies," "hitting the mark foursquare"), talk only to each other, and say only what they...
What businessmen can talk about best, they talk about least: the issues confronting their own businesses. Complains President George S. Dively of Harris-Intertype Corp.: "My lawyers tell me I must not say this or that-it might get us in trouble with Antitrust or the union, with the customers or the stockholders." Thus most speeches are prepared in committee, with lawyers, admen, public-relations men at hand to ax anything that could possibly offend anyone. Their rule of thumb: "If in doubt, be vague." The average speech is wrung through five to ten drafts, gets worse each time...
...door to dozens of West German millionaires but couldn't keep her mouth shut, and so one night was strangled with a pair of her own nylons (TIME, Sept. 29, 1958). The movie takes the sordid case as an occasion for social satire, as a chance to say, often in a deftly indirect and wickedly amusing way, that the "economic miracle" is a moral disaster...
While most of this yarn is expertly comical, Linklater's Scots satire does not sustain the brilliance of, say, Honor Tracy's jape at the Irish, The Straight and Narrow Path. Too many other elements (including Yacky Doo's mawkish death) intrude on the story's essential mixture of fondness and malice. But Author Linklater's entertainment survives its flaws. His most effective jest is at the expense of the reader who, eager to read the imaginary Burns erotica, leafs ahead to find some. The novel is salted with verses, but most of them...