Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Morse did parts of the show here on a WGBH-TV program of commentary and excerpts a few weeks ago, he drew enthusiastic raves from both critics and the general public. During the coming season he plans to tour Canada with his one-man performance...
...history": "Associating present sensations with past experience is normal and even necessary in everyday living, but such associations are poisonous in creating art. When the process of association fills the initial intuition with the pastness of dead data-stuff the impact of this intuition is reduced to that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists. The wide-open mind which accepts anything in the name...
SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILE, to be named Red-Eye, will be developed for Army and Marines by General Dynamics Corp.'s Gonvair division under $6,000,000 contract. New surface-to-air weapon looks like World War II bazooka, is electronically guided for use against low-flying planes...
From nearly all sectors of industry, earnings were rising in what appeared to be the biggest quarterly gain over the comparable quarter a year before since the end of World War II. General Motors' Chairman Frederic G. Donner reported that corporate sales of $3.3 billion in the second quarter were the second best in history for that period (best: igss's $3.4 billion). G.M.'s first-half earnings climbed to $2.08 per share, v. $1.17 in the same period last year. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed how well it had stepped up efficiency under President Mark W. Cresap...
Report to Uhlan: "This book is dated, dreadfully written and sentimental in tone ... I can't think of any general sales possibilities for this book . . . This is probably autobiographical fiction, since the details of military-school life are exhaustively gone into, and the author is far from inventive...