Word: adding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creativity and Catapults. Such human engineering, of course, would stunt the passionate creativity that slow risers now use to bedevil themselves out of bed. One Los Angeles ad man takes a deep draught of vodka, which, he says, tricks him into thinking it's still last night and he's awake and having a good time. The wife of one comedian once baked him out of bed by turning up the dial on his electric blanket. Humorist Robert Benchley's secretary used to wake him up with such snappy lines as "The men have come to flood...
...nephew's kind of opening is as out of date as The Moon and Sixpence. The openings that today's most authentic bohemians frequent take place on a Saturday, and during regular gallery hours. The dealer serves no drinks. The public is welcome, even solicited with an ad in Saturday's Times...
...poring over a dis play of its past performance. The zigs and zags may ignore the fundamental "facts," but more important, technicians argue, the charts reflect what the mar ket knows (or thinks it knows) about a company. One reason the chartists can be right: corporate insiders learn in ad vance about their company's earnings or new products and sometimes trade on that information in the market be fore the news gets around...
THERE WERE some people inconvenienced recently by the Administrative Board. The Ad Board disallowed their petitions for make-up exams. For some (including the author), the Board's decision was merely an inconvenience. For others, the decision probably constitutes a major academic disaster...
...there really is no reason for it. Oh, as long as the rules demand a "good excuse" for being absent from an exam, the Ad Board must enforce them. But that particular set of rules is of dubious value...