Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grudging Scottish soil, whose bleak austerity breeds, by sheer force of survival, hardy sheep bearing wool that makes the world's finest tweeds. There is the Scottish economy, founded on ships and coal and heavy machinery, which, when depression hit, crashed with the thundering completeness of a toppling crane...
...entire year, Ron Hewitt had worked in a silent world. From the moment he stepped into the cabin of his crane, no one talked to him; all around, the 300 men he worked with in the foundry of the Staveley Iron and Chemical Co. chatted and joshed with each other, but to Hewitt they spoke not a word, not even hello. It was almost as though his working day were spent in solitary confinement...
Just off Michigan Avenue in Chicago, workmen fixed an American flag to a steel girder, then signaled to a crane operator atop a 41-story building skeleton. While thousands of sidewalk superintendents looked on, the girder swiftly rose to the top (see cut), where it was fastened into place, "topping out" the $40 million Prudential Building, biggest skyscraper to be built in the U.S. in 15 years...
...Jazz Age of the '20s, social critics heard the trumps of doom amid the saxophones, and Poet Hart Crane was tortured by "the phonographs of hades in the brain." The phonographs of 1954 sound far less like hades. Jazz as played by Brubeck and other modernists (Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool...
Members of the committee who will act as academic advisors are Crane Brinton, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History, Edward C. Bursk, Editor of the Harvard Business Review, Frederick B. Deknatel, William Door Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Herold C. Hunt, Charlest William Eliot Professor of Education, and Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government...