Word: eastmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four--Max Eastman, Will Herberg, John Dos Passos, and James Burnham--differ in almost every way except the direction of their intellectual development. Eastman, a genial, flamboyant libertine, translated Marx's Capital into English, as he did many of the works of Trotsky, his intellectual mentor. He edited two communist journals, The Masses and The Liberator, and became a learned exegete of Hegel. Herberg, a lower-class Jew whose parents emigrated from Russia, received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia in 1932, by which time he had gained a reputation in radical circles as a complex and formidable thinker...
...Eastman criticized the polite liberal reformer who could not see the "beauty" of the revolutionary deed; Dos Passos looked upon liberal intellectuals as a "milky lot" armed only with "tea-table convictions"; Herberg dismissed liberal pragmatism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie; and Burnhad saw liberalism as a philosophy of hope without a philosophy of power...
Almost from the time George Eastman fathered the snapshot, the biggest profits in the photography business have come from selling not cameras but film. Now Polaroid Corp., Eastman Kodak's biggest competitor in the $3 billion U.S. amateur photography market, is looking to cash in heavily on the same idea. This spring it will offer its supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing picture technology in a new camera called Pronto. Lighter and less cumbersome than the SX-70 original, with improved electronic circuitry, the black plastic Pronto will list for $66 but probably will be reduced by discounters to about...
...going into the battery-making business itself to ensure quality-all at great cost. Last year sales rose 4% to a record $800 million, and profits probably about doubled. That performance, plus the Pronto's potential, should put Polaroid in a good position to do battle with Eastman Kodak, which is expected to enter the instant-picture market at about the time of the Pronto's national debut. Supersecretive Kodak is not saying just what kind of system it will market. Whatever it is, Polaroid President William J. McCune Jr., 60, who has taken over the company...
...concern was that the 2,080-lb. bell would be damaged beyond the celebrated crack that opened in 1835 while the bell was tolling for the funeral procession of Chief Justice John Marshall. Eastman Kodak made several radiographs (or giant X rays) of the bell that revealed some hitherto unknown interior cracks, but none serious enough to cause future damage. And so the bell, commissioned in 1751, will be seen-if not heard-by millions of Americans as the nation begins its third century...