Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stepovich's Alaska faces problems that will only become more intense with statehood. Once federal supervision and federal dollars are removed, Alaskans, who now pay a territorial income tax equal to 14% of their federal tax, will have to dig even deeper to pay increased costs of self-government. They are already strapped by what they call F.C.L.-fearful cost of living. Virtually everything Alaska uses is brought in by steamer and airplane, and because the territory produces so little for ships and planes to haul profitably back to the States, the freight charges boost retail prices to alarming...
After two weeks and fifty hours of music, Conductors Steinberg and Pritchard agreed on three "equal merit" awards, signifying that no single winner stood out sharply above the others. The winners: India's Zubin Mehta, 22; Detroit-born Haig Yaghjian (pronounced Yog-jun), 33, founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
...says Rostand, "was constructed by and for a certain living species whose reproduction is sexual, whose two sexes are separate and about equal in number, whose fertilization is internal, whose period of gestation is about nine months. The sex of the infants of this species is recognizable at birth and, in general, does not change during life. It is evident that if man were hermaphroditic like the snail or could grow a new head like the earthworm, he would not have given himself the same laws...
RESEARCH OUTLAYS are still on the rise. Poll of 500 key firms by American Management Association showed that 93% will equal or top 1957 investments in research. Of last year's $10 billion outlay by Government and private sources, bulk went to development of aircraft, machinery, chemicals...
...meaning of such a picture-poem is destroyed by literal description. Complete abstraction wreaks equal damage. The two questions--what it contains, and what it means--cannot be isolated. To discuss symbols is also to treat works of art. The goal should be to re-enter the picture via its images--to enhance and enrich the meaning of the work by carefully treating all facets of symbolical connotation...