Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sacrifice. As it is now constituted, the Post Office is the Government's basket case. There is a 23% average turnover in personnel every year; 85% of all employees are in the five lowest pay grades. Operations are guided by a vast hodgepodge of rules and regulations that fill a 9½lb. volume. The accumulated need for facilities and equipment exceeds $5 billion; yet the proposed construction of any major postal facility usually takes eight to ten years to win congressional approval...
...skepticism, however, involves only the idea of floating; otherwise, there is little question that many jetports of the future will be water-based. This fall the FAA expects to unwrap a $35,000 study of existing proposals for offshore air port construction, which will include airports built on fill, on piles and behind dikes. Meanwhile, a number of cities in the U.S. and abroad have their own study projects under...
Living in the Protestant Bible Belt both delighted and challenged her. "To be great storytellers," she said, "we need something to measure ourselves against. It takes a story to make a story. It takes a story of mythic dimensions. In the Protestant South, the Scriptures fill this role." She asserts her Catholicism with a most graceful catholicity. "The writer should never be ashamed of staring," she wrote. "When the Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which...
...years ago, showed a 21-minute tape of classical and Beatles music accompanied by glowing visual abstractions that he dubs Psychedelevision in Color. Closer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey than to Walt Disney's Fantasia, it is the sort of work that might well fill the extra channels on the cable antenna systems of the future. Eager to "take the waste out of the wasteland," Thomas Tadlock, 28, spent two years and a patron's $10,000 to create his Archetron. The result is a studio-size console, with 46 knobs and controls...
...octave, each containing from five to 56 microtones, each following a pattern programmed by Cage's collaborator, Composer Lejaren Hiller-and then fed to a computer. "The theme is diversity, abundance and Mozart, as opposed to unity, fixity and Bach," Cage explained obscurely."The idea is to fill the hall with sound...