Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never in its 102-year history, had Figaro missed an edition. Proper Parisians would no more think of doing without Figaro at breakfast than croissants. Employee control has not kept it from being the unabashed bastion of the French bourgeoisie; its sober, sensible columns rarely stoop to scandal or crusading...
...turtle?" In accordance with a bar room tradition that has been adopted by the astronauts, Slayton was required to answer "You bet your sweet ass I am" -or pay the penalty of buying a drink for everyone within earshot. "I have recorded my answer," responded Slayton from the control center, after momentarily switching off his microphone. On one show, Astronauts Schirra and Cunningham suddenly floated up from behind their seats and swam toward the camera, vividly demonstrating the weightlessness of space flight...
...their accomplishments the three new U.S. Nobelmen have not only provided a clearer understanding of the nature of life, they have brought closer the day when molecular biologists will be able to correct genetic defects, control heredity, and perhaps even create life itself...
...Soul Massager. Schiller also fought through legislation providing for Keynesian control of the economy from the top, a council of economic "wise men," and four-year fiscal planning where none had existed before. Other Schiller ideas and slogans came in salvos. He junked the verbal Seelen-massagen (soul massages) that Erhard used to aim at German employers and unions. He substituted regular private sessions with business and labor at which he preaches "social symmetry," his way of describing wage and price restraint and equilibrium...
Once the necessity of the youth's decline becomes known, Senelick asserts a masterly control. He counter-points the rapes and deceits which finally consume everyone on stage, (except perhaps the bourgeois Leantio, whose "breeding" makes life at court intolerable) with a rich display of period objects and customs. The two themes, the perversion of every code of conduct and the persistent and self-serving reverence for the code itself come together in the final scene: the principals all do one another in while the Duke of Florence, portrayed with a peculiar accent by Jonathan Raymond, complains that none...