Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toss at Philadelphia is to guess wrong. Sample torpid humor: "At the stage when most men prosper, I live in Philadelphia on three dollars a day." The musical score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about the entire musical. The men involved were the architects of a great republic, men of passion, probity and reason. Touched with some impalpable and mysterious inspiration, they proved to be the golden brood of 18th century Enlightenment...
Steel Blue. There is a monumentally unsettling force in Helen Frankenthaler's Blue Head-On. At the same time, a steely discipline is built into the picture. After years of developing her eye, she has found that many pictures normally "work" better with darker colors at the top. A sedate, woodsy green thus sets a lid on the upward rushing blue genie. Helen Frankenthaler is not interested in emotions for their own sake. Despite the modernity of her style, she is an heiress to a tradition that reaches back beyond Pollock; she uses themes as a kind of reality...
...united superchurch would be both hierarchal and democratic, with three orders of ordained ministers: bishops for district, regional, and national office, presbyters to lead parishes and congregations, and deacons to perform special ministries and other duties. Existing churches of the various denominations would be arranged in unified "parishes," the better to utilize available space and talent. Such parishes will be intentionally multiracial, and thus not necessarily geographical entities. A national assembly, with the laity receiving a bloc vote along with each of the ministerial orders, would decide matters of faith and order...
...that jump came from substantial wage increases, which spur businessmen to invest in labor-saving new facilities and equipment. Beyond that, says John R. Hunting, president of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co.: "Borrowers feel that inflation is here to stay and that it's better to borrow now than later...
...school buildings. New York Telephone had difficulty finding takers for a $150 million issue yielding 7.47%. New York's Consolidated Edison had to pay a record 7.9% on an issue of $80 million of construction bonds. Many treasurers are turning away from bonds altogether, reasoning that it is better to pay 9% or so for a two-year bank loan than to be committed to 71% or more on a 30-year bond...