Word: cool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outsiders, hard-drinking Artist Carles was a long-haired, full-bearded bohemian who slugged hostile critics and hurled eggs against the wall on impulse. He alternated between exhausting stretches of work and months-long alcoholic bouts. But as an artist he believed in being both cool and controlled, recommended billiards as a fine training for any beginner. "On that green surface and within that frame." Carles said, "he will find the equilibrium, symmetry, triangulation, direction, motion and restraint...
...breaking latifundista political power often obscures the fact that a country may have excellent virgin farmlands available. Ecuador spent its public funds not for expropriating land but for building 1,600 miles of roads to open up the hot coastal plains. A thousand persons still own 80% of the cool Andean valleys, but peasants on free, 124-acre coastal plots are enjoying a boom that raised agricultural income 43% in seven years...
Author Lipton, a minor poet and novelist (Rainbow at Midnight, In Secret Battle), is well situated to serve as middleman between the beatniks and the squares. He owns a necktie, and he lives in a seaside slum of Los Angeles called Venice West, which is as cool and beat as a mentholated eggnog. Lipton himself is not really beat, but because of his advanced age (58) and full refrigerator, he is allowed to serve as Big Dada to the tribe...
...reorganized the division (retirements and transfers were encouraged, "and we did some firing too," says Knudsen) and set out to redesign the Pontiac from the wheels up-and out-aiming to make it real cool by this year. His biggest change was to widen the car by 2^ in. and push the wheels out as well. The effect was spectacular. The car not only looked flashy, but also the wide-track wheels gave better balance and road ability. Equally important, says Knudsen, "it gives people something to talk about. They can see it and they can understand it." Where...
When money rates are rising, even well-priced bond issues often meet a cool reception because buyers are waiting for still higher rates. Last week the U.S. found buyers scarce for its latest issue. To holders of $1.8 billion in maturing issues, the Treasury offered to exchange a short-term (one year), attractively priced (4.05%) issue. Instead of taking the new issue, 30% of the noteholders asked for $547 million in cash, highest attrition rate since the record...