Word: desks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extend the surtax promptly, but that would take it only to the end of November. A further extension vote by the Senate, he said, would come only after the Ways and Means reform package had made its way through both the House and Senate to the President's desk. Republicans denounced the proposition, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen said that he could not accept...
...with just six in Boston. The format, in TV jargon, is "music, demo, demo, talk, talk"-guest singer or jazz group, a visual demonstration of something like glassblowing or astronomy, and the inevitable circuit-riding horde of authors promoting books or public figures pushing causes. Garroway calls it the "desk and sofa concept," and he certainly should know. Yet his taste, often waggish, brings in such atypical guests as the proprietor of an ant colony, the mother of 23 children, a pewtersmith, a psychiatrist discussing transvestites and an 88-year-old barbell buff...
...discovering that there are no longer enough hours available to study reports, attend meetings and make decisions, let alone spend time with the family. A study of Chicago businessmen by Daniel D. Howard Associates, management consultants, showed that the average chief executive puts in 53 hours at his desk every week, then carries another ten hours of work home. At the Ashland Oil & Refining Co. in Ashland, Ky., higher-ranking officers often work a 61-day week, with only enough time off on weekends for church and 18 holes of golf at the club...
...Desk Full of Pills. Today's top executives, explains one Ohio physician, "spent their teens in the Depression, their 20s in the worst war in history, their 30s trying to make up for lost time. And now they must stay ahead in the age of cybernetics." Because of the computer, more information is readily available than any man can digest; but many executives push relentlessly in an effort to keep abreast. To make things tougher for them, jet travel has broken down the constraints of distance. With the farthest plant or subsidiary only hours away by air, many executives...
When Lola first meets the King his room is filled with depth, but each spot in it is exactly limted and structured by the regular columns which rise from floor to ceiling, by the regular wall-cornicing in the background, by the desk and steps which divide up the spacious floor. The two figures in this setting are not isolated, but not confined either. The integration of space and characters is perfect; its thematic parallel is the relation of these two personalities; strong yet subtle, passionate and deep yet completely controlled. Nevertheless Lola is in a desperate situation...