Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into debt during three years in Washington, added: "You can't expect me to maintain this Government with underpaid men. I'm afraid that a lot of people will leave because they aren't making enough money." The bureaucrats got their pay raise...
Although things are moving, they aren't moving fast enough. Top priority should be given to education. "The only country to approximate the U.S. in the percentage of GNP earmarked for education is Costa Rica," says the C.E.D., with the result that "it has the largest per capita GNP of the region." Education should be pushed particularly on the primary levels. Employers should initiate on-job training programs, a practice not widely enough spread...
Some purists felt the timbre of the auditorium to be more on the brilliant or hi-fi side, in contrast to the mellow tones of Europe's more ancient structures. But at intermission time, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky turned to Jack Benny, sitting just beside him, and said, "Aren't the acoustics wonderful...
...good. Hartford may be right. But too often, he discussess the painter's methods without ever seriously mentioning the result of those methods. He objects that painters who apply paint to their canvasses with the wheels of sports cars, pairs of boxing gloves or naked, paint-smeared assistants aren't really artists. Good enough, But he never really contends with the outside possibility that the paintings they produce in these bizarre manners...
Understandably, Americans aren't proud of New York. They say it's the crime, or the squalor but really they're on the defensive. They dread New York's sophistication, her toughness, her cynicism. They think she looks down her 80-story nose at them, considering anywhere else pure Dubuque. They know New York's got the power (the money, the industry, the communications) but fear she's without the responsibility to behave herself...