Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tomorrow Morning"). The first act of Hello, Dolly ends with the title character leading a march that bristles with her optimism for the future. The first act of this new show closes with its heroine doing the same bit in the same tempo. But the songs don't really fit the character this time around, and the new tunes aren't memorable enough to justify keeping them in the show...
...mistake, U.S. business is relying increasingly on the fast-growing science of anthropometry, which systematically studies man's ever-changing anatomical measurements and applies the findings to products and equipment. The idea, says Henry Dreyfuss, a Manhattan industrial designer who specializes in anthropometry, is to "make machines fit people, because it's easier than making people fit the machines." As it catches on in one industry after another, anthropometry is becoming quite a tidy industry in its own right...
...Adjustment. While a few companies-Ford is one-employ their own in-house anthropometric specialists, most rely on outside consultants. In recent years, anthropometry has enabled manufacturers to develop movie cameras compact enough to fit snugly in one hand, more fully rounded typewriter keys that are kinder to secretaries' fingernails and elevator buttons that are within the reach of tall and short peo- ple alike...
...Goldfinger as Argan--play their roles in an effeminate way. Moliere's Argan, bluntly put, is a madman. When asked why he persists in standing in the way of his daughter's love, he replies, "Because I'm king of my own castle and I do what I think fit." On stage his source of strength should be this single-minded devotion to his role as the father of the family and the hypochondria that springs from it. Instead, Goldfinger seems always to be squealing with delight or in protest; he seems to be playing at being Argan, but never...
Assuming, though, for the sake of discussion that a newspaper could afford to hire a newsroomful of Norman Mailers, then could provide space for an 84,240-word report on the two conventions written to fit the monthly deadline of a magazine, there remains at least one more problem. What if a reporter launches himself into a "subjective" account that doesn't seem "true" to whoever is entrusted to pass judgment upon truth and rightness? And if the reporter has aligned himself with the "wrong" side, who is to decide that this is so? The logic in attempting to provide...