Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to juggling the economy and foreign crises, President Kennedy last week ordered a step-up in U.S. deterrent and airlift capability, and asked Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to produce by month's end a full reappraisal of the U.S. defense setup. Along the way, Kennedy registered a solid boost in G.I. morale by rescinding Dwight Eisenhower's order calling for a cut-down in the number of military dependents abroad to slow the drain on gold...
...exchange, the Saturday Review's twelve stockholders-by far the biggest of whom are Editor Cousins and Publisher Jacob R. Cominsky-will get about $3,000,000 in McCall Corp. stock. But the chief attraction of the deal for Cousins and Cominsky is that under the new setup the Saturday Review will be able to use McCall's distribution and promotion facilities to grow with-as well as its capital to grow...
...crypto-language of psychiatry. Antiestablishmentarian Macdonald gleefully produces a mimeographed jeu d'esprit by American Heritageman Oliver Jensen. It is a Gettysburg Address in Eisenhower, beginning: "I haven't checked these figures, but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup in this country . . ." Ike, in a West Point Address, is quoted as doing almost as badly by himself, and thus joins an illustrious company of those capable of unconscious self-parody. Others: Henry James, Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Johnson himself, quoted in an impenetrably opaque passage on the subject...
...Comden and Adolph Green) has certainly its good things-though not enough to make it a good musical. Its top draws, Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, greatly compensate for how little else-actually, just the best lyrics-is top drawer. But other things prove of use; and the general setup-Silvers as a little man aching to be a big shot and inducing some old slot-machine racketeers to muscle in on jukeboxes-has a promisingly raffish...
Actually it is the setup that pulls the show down, for it makes vice as insipid as virtue. Constantly recalling Guys and Dolls, Do Re Mi so little equals it that where the book of Guys was a blessing, Do's is a bore. And whether from an effort to even things up, or merely by contrast, the music at times seems fiendishly loud, the dancing fiendishly frenzied...