Word: clue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have joined forces to produce a bizarre performance that has (they claim) only projective meaning: it isn't what they say, it's what the audience thinks they're saying that counts. Last Saturday's concert of three pieces met with uneven success in its attempt to give some clue as to what it was all about, but it was still...
...Caroline Kennedy's toy list for her first Christmas at the White House was filled at Schwarz. "Why are we successful?" asks Schwarz President Charles Veysey, 45, and offers an answer that doesn't explain: "F.A.O. Schwarz is a retailing phenomenon." Another Schwarz executive provides a clue: "Grandparents are very indulgent...
...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...
...frustration, desperation and finally gratification, is at hand. TIME celebrates the season with a cover story on the hazards and pleasures of Christmas shopping. Sprinkled throughout are details about what costs most, sells best, or is furthest out, and among these samplings readers may even find a last-minute clue as to what to give a difficult name on their list. But just in case, we have in recent weeks been compiling other lists too. Last week TIME printed four columns of recommendations among gift books, the kind "that deserve to be read (or looked at), not just given." This...
...clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English." The real difficulty is our language itself...