Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran was saddened, remarking that Young was "the only American I ever met who listened well. And there's a lot you don't even have to tell him." In Beirut a P.L.O. statement declared that Young was coerced into resigning, a tactic that "represents the ugliest form of mental terrorism and racist persecution." Israeli officials studiously avoided comment. But in Bonn, a high-ranking official said that Young "typified the Carter Administration's amateurism...
...history." Some expansion! Unemployment stands at almost 6%, and to keep the rate from climbing even higher than its 1975 recession peak of nearly 9%, both the Ford and Carter Administrations have had to stuff the people's pockets with almost as much inflationary funny-money, in the form of Government deficit spending, as was generated in all of World...
...once was: "It has been hard for the Keynesians to contend that their prescriptions are the way out of stagflation. Ultimately, they are forced to admit that Keynesian techniques just bring forth inflation and not real growth. They answer that the solution is wage-price guidelines or another form of an incomes policy, but that is a very weak reed to lean...
Other Western European states have had to deal with sizable racial minorities in the form of "guest workers" who have been allowed in on a temporary basis to fill factory and public service jobs. But in Britain, by contrast, most of the minorities are citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup...
Silent, muffled in form, tinged with the pathos of the discarded chrysalis, George Segal's plaster figures have kept their place on the edge of modernism for the better part of 20 years. They have also shown how art changes one's reading of other art. In the early 1960s, when Segal -the son of a New Jersey chicken farmer -first emerged as a sculptor, he was identified with Pop art. This happened because some of his tableaux had an aggressive, urban character and used real props: stacks of oil cans, winking beer neons, even the inside...