Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power and popular hero than Mattei was, and will have to justify E.N.I.'s international whirligigging by providing sound financial management. One sign that he is succeeding came last week: the Italian government announced approval of a $1.16 billion four-year E.N.I. expansion program. If bankers take a dim view of lending more to this state Goliath, the Italian government will presumably put up the money...
...Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration for the bag of naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch on to the trick of piling boxes on one another to get the tasty reward offered by the simian scientists. Mérou, however, dumfounds the experts with his speed...
...help of a translator. High among the topics discussed was last year's cancellation by Congress of Yugoslavia's most-favored-nation status in trade with the U.S. Kennedy promised to see what he could do to restore it, but his chances of persuading Congress are dim...
...Share of Management. Most Americans take a dim view of teachers even threatening to strike. The 858,000-member National Education Association, old-line rival of the upstart 82,000-member American Federation of Teachers, deplores strikes as unprofessional. New York law forbids strikes by public employees. Nevertheless, the A.F.T.'s New York local, bargaining agent for the city's 43,000 teachers, won not only money but something more significant than money: a voice in how the schools will be run. The Board of Education committed itself to consulting the United Federation of Teachers regularly on such...
...Control. Last week, 43 years after it was written, Vexations was finally performed as directed. The recital began at dusk in a dim little hall on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and with chicken soup and peaches to keep them going, a dozen pianists kept the ritual alive for 18 hours and 40 minutes until the final E was struck for the 840th time the next afternoon. The pianists, who were led by Composer John Cage, presented uniform poker faces to their audience, and everyone who bought one of the $5 tickets got a nickel refund for each...