Word: causticity
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...caustic old joke is fast losing its bite. True, top amateur tennis players still make a comfortable living-up to $1,000 per tournament in "expense money"-but few any longer refuse to turn pro on the grounds that "I can't afford to." Long a disorganized gypsy sport, pro tennis finally has gone big time. In 1964, the "pro tour" consisted of only eight tournaments worth a total of $80,000 in prize money; this year the pros will play 42 tournaments in the U.S. and abroad, and $600,000 is up for grabs. If he plays...
...First Cry gains its greatest power when it abandons trickery and makes surprisingly caustic side excursions into everyday life in Czechoslovakia: the ugly racial prejudice that surfaces when a black African stays too long in a phone booth and precipitates a fight; the prudish moralism of a policeman who makes Abrhám turn the painting of a nude face down; the arrogance of a movie critic who puts down a "bourgeois Italian film" while ogling a couple of girls in bathing suits. Like many films about the young by the young, The First Cry counts somewhat less...
...will continue Castello Branco's tight-money program-but not at the expense of development. In the Northeast, the government's regional development agency, called SUDENE, is luring new industry with special tax incentives and is helping build a $37 million potassium-fertilizer factory, a $44 million caustic-soda plant and an $11 million tire plant. Brazil is building the new $25 million, 15-story Panorama Palace Hotel on a Rio hill side overlooking Copacabana Beach; it will be Latin America's largest and lushest hotel. The massive 4,000,000-kw. Urubupunga Project going...
...Ives, ranging from the Grieg-like First Quartet (performed by string orchestra) to the more modernistic songs and the enigmatic Unanswered Question for strings, solo trumpet, and concertino of woodwinds. The audience had the rare opportunity of experiencing Ives' music in all its ambivalence: intense and earnest yet caustic and derisive, ardently Schumannesque yet aggresively modern and American...
...imports from Spain, whose 2,400-year-old Almaden mine, the world's richest, was first worked by invading Phoenicians. Both U.S. and world demand are growing faster than production, partly because of mercury's increasing use as a catalyst in the making of chlorine and caustic soda for the expanding chemical, paper and plastics industries. A corrosive poison in some forms (mercury bichloride), a therapeutic salve in others (mercury ammonium chloride), fickle mercury also goes in hefty quantities into such disparate products as dental fillings and dry-cell batteries, antibarnacle paint and electrical control apparatus. Hatmakers, however...