Word: bu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agriculture's economists predicted that retail prices of food would rise only slightly this year. Last week they backed up that welcome forecast. According to the department's spring "crop production" report for 1976, the nation's corn crop will reach a record 6.55 billion bu. this year. Since corn is a key livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent of grain will not cause a glut...
Perpetual Discontent. Only one craftsman could work on the kimono since, as Textile Historian Nishimura Hyōbu remarks in the catalogue notes, "a change of workers - or even a brief illness - could result in an irreparable alteration of the rhythm of the tying and the evenness of the results." The knots took more than a year to tie and another year to undo, one by one. Because the process cost so much, the making of sō-hitta was outlawed by the Japanese sumptuary laws of 1683, which attempted to control extravagance in clothing. But the tie-dyed kimono...
...fact is, there are no contemporary writers of importance. Not one. O'Neill and Tennessee Williams had moments, but I don't regard them as great classical writers. Movies? Forget it. I'm convinced that the larger the gross, the worse the picture. Bergman and Buñuel are visionaries, wonderful artists and craftsmen. How many people in the world have ever seen one of their films or ever heard of them? How can you take movies seriously? You go on the set with the script in your back pocket. You take it out and read...
...Penn; 2. Navy; 3. Harvard; 4. Northeastern; 5. Yale; 6. Wisconsin; 7. Princeton; 8. Rutgers; 9. Syracuse; 10. Coast Guard; 11. MIT; 12. Cornell; 13. BU; 14. Dartmouth; 15. Brown...
...Harvard; 2. Yale; 3. Princeton; 4. Brown; 5. Syracuse; 6. Penn; 7. Dartmouth; 8. BU; 9. Navy; 10. Wisconsin; 11. Rutgers; 12. Northeastern; 13. Coast Guard...