Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Fine Arts should change its name to the Department of the History of Art, and it should add one or more basic courses in addition to Fine Arts 13, "in order to fulfill the complex task of introducing several hundred undergraduates to the broad field of the history of art, and at the same time to respond to their varied interests...
Generations of Intrigue. To young King Hussein the complex intrigues of Araby are as familiar as baseball statistics to a U.S. teenager. He is a member of the proud and once mighty Hashemite clan, which held sway over holy Mecca for 38 generations and trace their ancestry to the Prophet's great-grandfather. Ever since the austere warriors of Ibn Saud stormed out of Arabia's deserts in 1919 and drove them into exile, the Hashemites have found intrigue a matter of simple survival amidst ambitious rivals...
Probably the most fascinating record of Eastern music ever made, the Ragas are played by three instruments: drums, a drone-type stringed instrument, and a melodic stringed instrument. The drummer starts setting up complex rhythm often based on seven beats, over which the melody instrument improvises an increasingly complicated part, while the drone keeps up a fill-in. The music is quite difficult to understand at first, partially due to the strange scales it uses. But repeated hearings brig out the intricate beauty of its very advanced art. It is worthwhile buying the "de luxe" edition, as the explanatory notes...
...immediate predecessor in the corner was Leslie Stevens, who spent much of his two years there writing plays. Stevens left TIME just before his Bullfight scored an off-Broadway hit that paved the way for a Broadway production of his Champagne Complex. Now Stevens has another play, The Lovers, in rehearsal. Good friends, the two former TIME copy boys have been collaborating on an adaptation of Ibsen's The Master Builder, with Stevens doing the writing and Anderson the translating...
...U.A.W. has also set up a well-oiled working arrangement with General Motors and Ford. In the complex, highly automated auto industry, new machinery, new methods and new models force automakers into constant time studies, constant revisions of job standards. But there is little friction because G.M. and Ford agree wholeheartedly with the U.A.W. that time study is not an exact science, but a starting point for bargaining about base pay and incentives...