Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing," Poggioli commented, "that it is virtually impossible to continue writing avant-garde literature. under a totalitarian regine." The reason for this, Poggioli said, is that any literature written under such a regime must reflect a reversion to tradition, and, "since the tradition upheld under the Soviet regime is cheap, Zhivago represents a search for something else...
...ambitions on their sleeves, find it dangerous to criticize a President with a clear claim to serving the national interest without hope of electoral reward. If, for example, Democratic presidential hopefuls were to launch a plainly partisan attack, the President, says a White House aide, could "make them look cheap-simply cheap." And it is from that same vantage point of obviously working for the good of the U.S., not of Dwight Eisenhower, that he has fought -with success, so far-for a balanced budget...
...suspicion that a summit meeting is unlikely to settle anything the foreign ministers cannot. In fact, even Nikita Khrushchev's longstanding enthusiasm for summit talks seemed last week to have been cooled-as it was last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there is no meeting of the heads of government in the near future, we shall wait until the time is ripe...
...method will interfere less with the standard tuberculin skin test for TB infection. Obscured results in this test have been a major factor in U.S. opposition to wide use of BCG, though the N.T.A. convention heard from Northwestern University's Dr. Guy Youmans last week about a cheap, simple blood test which may reinforce and partly replace the tuberculin test. Most important to Dr. Middlebrook is the simplicity of his proposed airborne vaccination: "It would be easy to immunize a theater full of children while they were watching a Mickey Mouse cartoon...
...output. Whereas rival U.S. manufacturers deride Japanese transistors as "cheap and dirty" (i.e., adequate for consumer equipment but not precise enough for high-grade military or industrial use), U.S. engineers rank good Japanese transistors on a par with good U.S. transistors-and they are considerably cheaper...