Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry Adams described the dynamo as modern man's equivalent of the medieval Virgin, and Rudyard Kipling celebrated its strength in Song of the Dynamo. Prime Minister Nehru has urged his countrymen to make pilgrimages to their "new temples": the dams and power plants rising across the face of India. In 1964 the world is hungry for electric power as never before-and is struggling to overcome a shortage of it. From Singapore, where new entrepreneurs hawk the output of 10-kw. mobile generators, to Switzerland, where ancient glaciers help turn turbines as they melt, East and West this...
...corners to cutting throats. But since the book came out in 1941, something unsettling has happened to the heel; now the question is whether he should be scorned for his gall or admired for his How-to-Succeed spunk, shunned as a social leper or respected as a social dynamo. When the Sammy Clicks and Harry Bogens (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) first appeared in novels, the socio-economic climate was troubled, and heels were regarded as products of "the system," whose hardboiled inhumanity they reflected and whose boils they were. But a healthier social order, not needing...
Rolling Pastures. He started to work toward "simplification and amplification" of his art, began his important projects La Montague and Dynamo Mother with a naturalistic sculpture and countless drawings. Of a work called Woman, he wrote: "As a vision sculptural, she began to move, vigorously, robustly, walking, alert, lightly, radiating sex and soul." Of La Montagne, he wrote: "Mountains neither jump nor walk, but have fertile rolling pastures, broad and soft as fecund breasts...
FRANZ KLINE-Janis, 15 East 57th. At 40, the burly painter was unknown beyond New York's 10th Street galleries, but in the decade before his death last year he earned worldwide recognition as a dynamo of abstract expressionism. Mostly on loan and rarely shown are 30 paintings, spanning his heyday, from 1952 to 1962, which provide in Kline's first New York posthumous show a survey of his black-and-white clashes as well as some uncharacteristic excursions in flamboyant color. Through...
Green's 2:18 time in the Easterns was more than a second quicker than Pringle's. Even should the Harvard dynamo be able to upset Green, however, his chances of beating swimmers from some of the weasern schools...