Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year before, "smart" the year of its coming of age, and "hideous" ten years after. But it will become "amusing" 30 years after its vintage year, and ultimately it may become "romantic" or even "beautiful." The same sort of pattern, Laver maintains, can be traced in interior decoration and design. He may be right...
Craft and the Machine. Some admirers of the period value its creations for their sentimental value and assemble Mickey Mouse watches or Coca-Cola trays. More discerning buyers search for pieces of intrinsically good design. At its best, the style marks the first concentrated attempt to come to grips with the aesthetic challenges of the machine...
...economists' own idea of their importance, and the result is intended to serve as a picture of the real world. The models vary, but they usually contain data about prices, wages, spending, savings, interest rates-and how a change in one will theoretically affect the others. Like the design for a new airplane, the model can be "tested" in a computer without the risk of painful mistakes. Even if the results are not wholly accurate, the discipline of building a model enhances understanding of economic problems. Modelmaking is an important part of France's Le Plan...
...friend, who had to study monkeys for anthropology. It was the first zoo in a long while where I have been happy. First of all, it wasn't oppressive. Zoos are usually out of control. But this one is small and has the kind of ordered fantasy that adults design into things they make for children. There were just a few animals, and they were the kind you can dig very easily. Baby elephants, and baby lions, and raccoons, and a few very asexual monkeys...
...arguments along these lines-by the NAC and others-have pointed out one question which should be of concern to those outside their ranks: Have American universities. through design or by chance. undertaken functions-such as the development of operational weapons systems-which are incompatible with the broader humanistic values universities generally presume to promote...