Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal to raise to 70 the age at which a person can get a maximum Social Security check was made by the desk set, whose hardest job is making it to the water cooler and back to their desks. They can "work" until 98 before throwing in the towel...
Despite such engaging ways, many musicians and critics complain that Rostropovich takes too many liberties with his music, both at the cello and on the podium. Cellist Starker, whose style is considerably cooler and more disciplined than Slava's, deplores -"the personal approach that disregards the composer and stresses the feelings of the individual." It is not that Rostropovich insists upon sending his disregards to the composer; he simply hears phrases, colors and rhythms that nobody else hears. The result is that when he conducts, his soloist's gift for subtlety sometimes deserts him. In Vienna two years...
...some questioners of the Cook-Dowling research have asked how dogs can have anything to do with the human disease. Bowling's answer: In the warmer South, dogs are less often kept indoors as house pets, but are left to roam more freely outside than in the cooler North...
This apalling point of tastelessness reached, I must insist that cooler heads prevail and public opinion be brought back into touch with the truth. Obviously, one cannot prevent misguided displays of enthusiasms, since in our society, truth cannot always be the arbiter of public taste. This must be accepted as one of democracy's drawbacks. However, at last count we considered ourselves among the more discriminating people on earth. With this standard to uphold I simply wish to inject a whisp of truth into the bloated reputation this man has acquired...
...outrageous." A third cautions that junior executives cannot learn to become gamesmen by reading the book: the skills and attitudes are instinctive, "not like learning geometry." But Maccoby did not intend his work as instruction, only as description. In that capacity, it should fuel cocktail-party and water-cooler discussion for months, as workers try to classify their bosses-and themselves-according to Maccoby's types...