Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1920s, their results amounted to little more than experiments, designed to illustrate the constructivist tenet that space plays as vital a role in sculpture as mass. It remained for a myriad of advanced synthetics and plastics to make see-through sculpture a burgeoning art form in the 1960s (see color opposite...
Like clothes and art, stocks are also subject to fads, fashions and fancies. There was a big play in uranium shares in the 1940s, in utilities in the 1950s, in airlines early in the 1960s. Last year fashion focused on computer leasing and computer-software manufacturers, supplemental air carriers, electronics and office-equipment firms. Some of them quadrupled and quintupled in price within a few months. Now most of them have calmed down, and new vogues may be beginning. But how is the individual investor to know what those vogues will be? Though there is no sure answer, most people...
When the major commercial airlines switched over to jets in the early 1960s, they were stuck with hundreds of suddenly obsolete prop planes. The surplus planes may have seemed like a herd of white elephants to the airlines, but to budget-minded travelers with imagination, they have come to represent a skyful of magic carpets. The arithmetic was irresistible: with second-hand DC-7s available for as little as $100,000, it needed only 1,000 people contributing $100 each to buy one. Some two dozen private, nonprofit travel clubs quickly formed to put that principle to work, manning...
...viewer like the ghost of Savonarola. Crucifixion, a 7-ft.-high cross with a black, rotting cadaver, skeined by a cobweb of raveled nylon stockings, comments acridly both on the original sacrifice and its loss of contemporary meaning, while lesser works recall that Conner tried marijuana in the early 1960s...
Accordingly, when it decided in the early 1960s to move from cramped offices on Madison Avenue, it called for a building that would symbolize its esthetic preoccupations and, as President McGeorge Bundy (who took office in early 1966) puts it, "give the best urban environment for working people." The new $16 million Ford Foundation headquarters, into which some 350 executives, technicians and secretaries have now moved, is a twelve-story work of art, as fresh and bold to look at from the outside as it is invigorating to work...