Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much of this has the makings of dreadful humor. In The Brother, O'Brien has turned loose a memorably monstrous archetypal entrepreneur who, if he could turn a pennyworth of profit, would not only seethe a kid in its mother's milk but invite the dam to dine on it. What in the end spoils the fun is that O'Brien does not keep the goings on entirely in the cartoon world of outrageous literary parody and exaggeration where death, as Brendan Behan puts it, has lost its "sting-aling-aling." Grimy realism crops up occasionally...
...obligation to please anyone but its audience, Europe Number One tries to stick to the facts. Time and again, its hard-driving news squads have scored impressive beats on RTF. In 1959 Europe Number One scooped RTF by six hours with on-the-scene recordings of the Frejus Dam break. During last summer's peasant sitdown strike in Brittany, RTF prudently quoted Lc Figaro, a Parisian daily that put the rosiest possible complexion on the strike; Number One's mikes picked up, live, the protests of the Breton peasants themselves...
...Ogden, Utah, was christened "Orbit"). Senator Alexander Wiley proposed a memorial to Glenn and his fellow astronauts in Washington, and Florida's George Smathers suggested another on Cape Canaveral. In Utah a move was under way to add another n to the half-completed Glen Canyon Dam. Glenn's space capsule, Friendship 7, was consigned to the Smithsonian Institution, to rest in hallowed glory beside the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk biplane, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and Wiley Post's Winnie...
Danger: Narcissism. Williams sometimes runs a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushes where he should dam. Occasionally his characters are too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols have been known to multiply like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger is the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art. From the caves of Altamira to the Apollo Belvedere, pagan art looked outward and celebrated man. From the cathedral of Chartres to the music of Bach, religious art looked upward and glorified God. Modern art looks inward, contemplating the artist...
Opposition leaders advocate an end to socialistic planning and large industrialization projects like the Volta River dam, Goshal reported. Instead, they support foreign investment and production of consumers' goods to build up Ghana's economy...