Word: away
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-esthetic, considering beauty a snare. Yet their interest to the world is emphatically esthetic. The Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, N.Y., founded just nine years ago in recognition of the Shakers' unique contribution to American culture, already gets close to 9,000 visitors a season, sends them away charmed by the clean, consecrated ingenuity of Shaker crafts. Some 8,000 objects, crammed into the museum's six sizable buildings, show that despite themselves the Shakers created and lived in beauty...
...brought in more than a dozen top executives, plucking them away from such firms as Revlon, Macy's and Marshall Field with generous stock-option plans, and he gave employee morale a quick boost by putting in a new pension plan. He reorganized Ward's management structure, bolstered confidence by delegating authority, scrapped Sewell Avery's outlandish rules. He began to change Ward's cash hoard into merchandising strength in 1955, since then has redecorated nearly 376 of the company's 566 stores, air-conditioned 73 of them, opened more than 296 new catalogue stores...
...nearly forgotten, and his memoirs have only been spottily published in English. Previous U.S. editions were either abridged or sold by subscription; the present edition, the first in decades, seems to be the most nearly complete yet available. On the whole, it makes rewarding reading. There is no getting away from the fact that Memoirs is chiefly a record of night errantry, of seductions conducted on a scale that will amaze today's grey-flannel philanderer. But the language is witty and infinitely less crude than that of almost any contemporary bestseller. And Casanova's powers of observation...
North by Northwest. Hitchcock masterminding Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a squad of spies who should know better than to try to do away with Gary Grant. Thoroughly entertaining...
...disgruntled varsity soccer squad that walked off the field last Saturday after its second scoreless tie in a row. The Crimson hammered away at Columbia's goal for four quarters and two overtime periods, but the tenacious Lion defense never yielded...