Word: containable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diverse elements of much more populous societies-diversity is one essential of greatness-the city must now have a population of several millions. Cincinnati and Phoenix, to cite two typical American provincial cities, may be agreeable places to live in, but they are simply not large enough to contain, as does New York, the wide variety of types and temperaments that form the American character. Americans and foreigners alike call New York the least American of cities. In fact, it is the most American, reflecting as does no other all aspects of national life. Still, great is not synonymous with...
...doubtful that any one nation can claim more than one great city at any given time-great, after all, is a word that implies uniqueness. It is doubtful, too, that the world itself can contain more than half a dozen great cities at once. Indeed, a great city cannot exist in an unimportant country, which is why Urban Planner John Friedmann of U.C.L.A. prefers to call great cities "imperial cities." London and Paris are still great cities, but they lost some of their luster when world politics shifted to Washington, Moscow and Peking-all of which lack at least...
...Critic James Gleeson: "It pleases the eye and it is mysterious. Our uncertainty as to whether we are responding to the beauty of nature or the beauty of art merely adds piquancy to the experience." Christo himself likes the different view of reality offered by wrapping. "Packaging-meaning to contain an object by itself in a most realistic way-exposes its commonness in a beautiful and relaxed manner." In the meantime, he is resigned to the fact that it will all have to be unwrapped in a few weeks. "It's not a very permanent world anyway," he says...
Practitioners of econometrics use countless statistics to build complex mathematical models (see cut). The statistics are weighted according to the economists' own idea of their importance, and the result is intended to serve as a picture of the real world. The models vary, but they usually contain data about prices, wages, spending, savings, interest rates-and how a change in one will theoretically affect the others. Like the design for a new airplane, the model can be "tested" in a computer without the risk of painful mistakes. Even if the results are not wholly accurate, the discipline of building...
...military procurement bill as reported by the conference committee did not contain a provision-passed by the House but not by the Senate-which would have forbidden the Defense Department to make any grants to universities until they had reported on their record "with regard to co-operation in military matters such as ROTC and recruiting on campus...