Word: glow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room is dark, save for the rosy glow from the pilot light. On the broad panel-set roughly equidistant from two woofered and tweetered speaker assemblies in massive cabinets-is an array of switches, dials and knobs. This is not the cockpit of the X-15; it is a modern stereophonic rig. Tuner off. Amplifier on. Selector switch on RIAA. All niters out. Left volume control on #5. Right volume control on #5. Turntable spinning at 33⅓ r.p.m. A metal arm glides with feathery softness over the record. For the moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from...
...Cold-Shower Glow. General Motors gave Reuther pretty much the same beribboned package that he got two weeks earlier at American Motors Corp.-but without profit sharing. One reason for G.M.'s sudden retreat was that it wants nothing to block what it hopefully expects to be a banner selling year. Said American Motors Vice President Ed Cushman: "You should have seen Walter's eyes light up like a pinball machine when two G.M. vice presidents predicted a 7,250,000-car year for 1962. Walter knew he had power there...
...deadline, a personal telegram came in to both sides from President Kennedy, emphasizing "the high degree of responsibility you bear to the country . . ." In the final countdown, G.M. began to make one concession after another. After 17 solid hours of hard bargaining, Walter Reuther stepped out wearing a coldshower glow. "I feel very good," he beamed. "I'm delighted...
...bowing distantly to Paris, but taking more cues from New York, is achieving a specific British combination of emotion and sensibility. Sometimes the paintings evoke the grime of cities whose burdens are overpowering. At other times the warm freshness of nature overwhelms the painters' defenses, leaving a happy glow. The style tends to be neater and less vigorous than the American. More than fellow abstractionists elsewhere, the British acknowledge and reflect a debt to more conventional artists, such as the 19th century's Constable and Turner, and to contemporaries like Ben Nicholson and Graham Sutherland. Any complete sampler...
...handling of the 1960 Algerian crisis. Gunther is even more successful with the elusive personality of Harold Macmillan, a fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted him a rare two-hour interview. In a revealing passage the author says that the Prime Minister talked "about the glow and throb of the England that was, the gallantry and peculiar innocent ardor, valor, of those lost, silken quivering days, and how a whole generation was cut off, sacrificed, exterminated...