Word: added
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists themselves do their bit. Painter Ad Reinhardt, who has so "refined" his paintings that they are currently all the same size and all look absolutely black until sufficient staring reveals an invariable cross of rectangles, is wont to make such statements as: "There is no place in art for life . . . the one thing to say about art is its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness...
...Take a Deep Breath." Such warnings, added to the widely publicized New York and Los Angeles air-pollution alerts and open bickering between politicians and industry over pollution controls, have made the U.S. suddenly aware that smog is a real and present danger. The belching smokestacks that long symbolized prosperity have now become a source of irritation; the foul air that had come to be accepted as an inevitable part of city living has suddenly become intolerable. "Tomorrow morning when you get up," reads a recent magazine ad placed by New York's Citizens for Clean Air, Inc., "take...
...cost to the industry of this featherbedding: a debilitating $13.6 million a year. Despite the waste, continued the report, management has too often shown little inclination to do battle with the unions. Instead, it makes a habit of "succumbing to extreme pressure." Sometimes it even succumbs in ad vance. It was long believed, for instance, that the Guardian was forced to print in both London and Manchester because of union insistence. In fact, the Guardian management never formally discussed with the unions the possibility of shutting down one of the printing plants...
Richard Lester is everybody's favorite director. For those to whom movies are "cinema" he provides endless hours of coffee chitchat about stills, shots, frames, ad infinitum. For the rest, he provides terribly bright, fresh, and--guess what--funny comedies. He helped make the Beatles more than teenage idols, Rita Tushingham a comedienne with the word "rape," and English films the prime examples of that ye-ye renaissance. When he turned his hand to filming a Broadway musical that smacked of burlesque that chitchat became more intense than ever. Now it appears he can do no wrong. A funny thing...
...Ad Hoc Faculty Committee was organized by the Boston Area Faculty Group on Public Issues, which has sponsored similar advertisements to protest exorbitant Civil Defense spending, to urge U.S. acceptance of the 1962 nuclear test ban treaty, and to seek a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Vietnam...