Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enoch Powell is entitled to his bigot views [May 3]. What infuriates me is the 79% of Britons who support these views. Along with their austerity program to strengthen the country's gross national product, Britons ought to participate in the weakening of another G.N.P., that of gross national prejudice...
...Josef Gross (Paul Stevens), the director of a large organization, has just received a memo written in a language he has never seen before. This is Ptydepe-a tongue that has been introduced into the organization in order to increase the precision and accuracy of office communications. There are some rather baffling rules. Gross discovers, for instance, that a staff member who has received a memorandum in Ptydepe can be granted a translation of a Ptydepe text only after his memorandum has been translated. "In other words," he muses, "the only way to learn what...
...language takes over the firm, juggling its personnel so thoroughly that Gross finds himself demoted to staff watcher, for which he must monitor peepholes into five offices at once. Eventually he persuades a secretary to make an unauthorized translation of his memo-which turns out to be a document praising his opposition to the spread of Ptydepe. Restored at last to his post as director, Gross has been so depersonalized himself that when the secretary appeals to him to keep her from being fired for translating his memo, he cannot even put in a good word for her. It might...
...London stands ready to meet the demand. In a three-day sale last week, the world's top auction house knocked down 388 impressionist and modern paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including 34 Picassos, nine Klees, 13 Rodins, nine Légers, seven Pissarros, seven Juan Gris. Total gross: $5,374,479.60, or half again the previous record for a single auction, set by Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries (a Sotheby affiliate) earlier this month...
...optimism is that for all its high price tag, the $29 billion-a-year Viet Nam war absorbs only 3% of the total national output of goods and services-only half the proportion consumed by the Kore an War. The total defense budget today accounts for only 9% of gross national product, compared with 41% at the height of World War II and 13% at the Korean peak. More important, the end of the Korean fighting caught Washington with a huge oversupply of military goods. And to make matters worse, peace plans were unready; cutbacks in defense spending...