Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Martha Graham took her modern dance troupe on tour in the 1930s and 1940s, her sensuous portrayals of tortured demons and demigods so outraged some audiences that one man in a Southern city took a potshot at her with a BB gun. Now, for the first time in 16 years, Martha Graham, a wispy 71, is touring the U.S. again, thanks to a $142,500 grant from the National Council on the Arts. This time she is drawing bravas instead...
...late as the 1920s and 1930s, American cooking was still a homely affair, and a reform was long overdue. The great shift in U.S. home cooking did not take place until the end of World War II rationing. The postwar travel boom brought millions of U.S. tourists back from Europe with their tastes broadened and sharpened by what they had eaten there. At the same time, a host of kitchen aids, from dishwashers, pressure cookers, blenders and Deepfreeze units to the latest nonstick Teflon pans, were taking the drudgery out of cooking...
...newscasters assigned to analyze their output. NBC's Robert MacNeil, anxious to help fill in the empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley had turned against their party...
...Habsburg restoration, though even the Habsburgs themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors for her son, even plotted unsuccessfully in the 1930s to marry him to Princess Maria of Italy in the hope that // Duce would present him with the Austrian throne. Of late, Otto has pledged loyalty to the republic. But after he won a battle in Austria's highest court last June, allowing him to travel in Austria, Socialist...
Though the big stores have slashed the costs of food distribution in half since the 1930s, other expenses are rising. From 1955 to 1965, wages went up 46%, but retail food prices rose less than 14%. Yet supermarket operators admit that they could do considerably more to reduce costs through automation. Across the typical checkout counter run 22 tons of merchandise a week-all of it totted up and packed by hand. Says George W. Jenkins, president of Florida-based Publix Super Markets: "Many repetitive supermarket activities are readymade for mechanical and electronic assistance...