Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their recommendations are considered as one of many criteria by the Director of Student Employment, who is the person who makes the final appointment. Again you are welcome to our files to find out that the influence of the past managers is but one of many factors taken into account...
Barely Black. Newsprint, which can account for 50% of a paper's budget, has soared from $41 a ton in 1933 to $135. The Linotype machine that sold for $8,000 twenty years ago costs $20,000 today. Technological gains in efficiency are largely neutralized by the fact that powerful shop unions prevent management from cutting payrolls, even though only half as many men may actually be needed to tend the new equipment. Union "make-work" practices such as "bogus"-the needless resetting of ads originally received in mat or plate form-waste millions of dollars a year...
What follows would breed theatrical enchantment if the musical Destry had any of the human appeal of the 1939 Jimmy Stewart-Marlene Dietrich film. The current Destry is expense-account entertainment. The songs are brassy, the girls are all chassis, and the mood is about as prairiefied as a subway rush hour. The electrifying exceptions are Michael Kidd's imaginative dance sequences...
...Mithridates, he died old," sang A. E. Housman in A Shropshire Lad-leaving it largely up to his readers to know who Mithradates was and why his longevity was worthy of note. In this book, able and highly readable, Historian Alfred (Julius Caesar) Duggan writes the first full-dress account of Mithradates' amazing life. Deftly stitched together from sundry classical sources (Plutarch, Appian, Strabo), King of Pontus is not only an excellent piece of history but a first-rate tale of war and adventure whose hero is never more heroic than in the closing years of a long...
...King's War: 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. History is a people's memory, and few have summoned up Britain's more vividly than Wedgwood in this scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead...