Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON would show up everyone else who had ever been on the program and especially Yale! For years they have heard me talking about the value of a good education, hard work, and much study. Granted, they haven't paid much attention to me, but here was my big chance to prove my point...
...world's known reserves, and ranks third on FORTUNE'S list of the 200 biggest non-U.S. companies. Yet B.P. has never won any stars for marketing. Unlike its international rivals, the U.S. majors and Royal Dutch/Shell, it does not have a retail network big enough to even begin to sell its output, of which 85% comes from high-cost Middle East fields. As a result, B.P. has been forced to rely on sales of crude oil and pass up the more lucrative marketing of refined products. The U.S. stations, which will take...
More of everything-particularly 'big, rich, fat, square Christmas books-seems to be the order of the season. Many are bought at the Frankfurt Book Fair from enterprising European publishers and imported wholesale. Several contain perfunctory yet prolix texts by scholars who take the money but regard the work as intellectual slumming; and the pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed...
This year's Rembrandt book. The text by Art Scholar Horst Gerson is for the most part mercifully purged of art history jargon. Eighty big color reproductions (book size: 14¾ in. by 11¼ in.) have been carefully printed to reduce the yellow cast of ancient varnish that customarily obscures Rembrandt's backgrounds. The result, though it sometimes gives the impression that the paintings have just been overzealously cleaned and scraped, offers a rare chance to linger over details normally lost in murk. Weight: 10½ pounds...
Assembled by a crew of international experts, this examination of whales and whaling in many ages and many waters should be blubbery and boring. Instead, it is one of the best organized and stylish big books of the year. The illustrations, including some deft Japanese watercolors, inevitably include scenes of indescribable carnage, but more often they illuminate more attractive aspects of the whale's world or the whaleman's work and art. The Whale covers everything from Ambergris to Zooplankton, but has no index-for which some editor should be harpooned...