Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directors failed in their obligation to interpret their plays, but they have been unable to block exits from the huge Loeb stage without having their actors crash into each other. Conversely, credit for the success of The Playboy must go largely to its director, George Hamlin. The performance was clean and economical; no movement is made on the stage without purpose. Ramzi Mostafa's set had the same virtues: handsomeness grace, and economy...
...develop "clean" hydrogen bombs with little or no radioactive fall out by improving the efficiency of the fission "trigger" that produces most of the fallout in nuclear explosions...
Proponents of a unilateral reduction in American military power disregard "the implicit dilemma that you can't create brand new policies as if writing on a clean slate," Chayes maintained...
...building's clean design results in part from Saarinen's admiration of the lines of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in Manhattan. Saarinen decided that the only way to best the master was to be even purer. He took as his clue the words of pioneer Skyscraper Designer Louis Sullivan, "a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." The idea of purity so ruled his design that CBS had to buy two adjoining lots for a utility building, rather than...
Died. Irving McNeil Ives, 66, two-term (1946-58) U.S. Senator from New York, a quiet upstate Republican who identified himself with labor's cause, fought in the Senate-often alongside then Senator John F. Kennedy-for clean unions, but was proudest of his success as a state assemblyman in pushing through New York's pioneering Fair Employment Practices Act prohibiting racial or religious discrimination in hiring; following stomach surgery; in Norwich...