Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have quadrupled to $1.3 billion. In the past 18 months, Iran has signed long-term trade and military deals with both East and West involving nearly $3 billion; the latest provides for the exchange of Iranian oil for $40 million worth of Rumanian grain silos and railroad cars. The gross national product has doubled in a decade to $6.5 billion a year...
Strick omits most of Joyce's well-worded obscurities ("met him pike hoses frillies for Raoul"), but makes telling use of the author's dry Irish drolleries ("weather as uncertain as a child's bottom"). He also gets some gross guffaws with Joyce's dirty jokes, among them Molly's assertion that oral sex practices can cause a woman to grow a mustache. As for the people who read the roles, most of them are recruited from the Abbey Theater, and they ring true as Irish shillings-particularly Actor O'Shea, whose Bloom...
...energy coping with segregation problems-even though the bigger issue is the quality of the education and the teachers' expectation of transmitting it. But even segregation defies solution. Superintendent Donovan, a suave Irishman and cool mediator who climbed up through the system's ranks to replace Calvin Gross two years ago, hopes to check it through a gradual shift to a 4-4-4 school organization. (At present, students spend six years in primary schools, three in intermediate or junior high, three in senior high.) This will enable children to stay in their own neighborhoods for the early...
...nation's leading producer of paper dresses, sells 80,000 a week. From its basic A-line shift ($1.75), the company has expanded its line to include bell-bottom jump suits ($4), evening gowns ($5), aprons ($1.35), and men's vests ($1.99). Sterling Paper Products aims to gross $6,000,000 this year from such items as a $7.50 zebra-print pants suit, a $15 bridal gown, an $8 maternity dress and 40? children's pinafores-just the thing for ever-sprouting sprouts...
...book called The Comprehensive High School (McGraw-Hill; $3.95) Conant points out that some states have already assumed a big share of the financial burden. Nonetheless, he adds, "there are gross inequalities within a state as well as between states." Some school districts get as much as two-thirds of their support from state aid; others get as little as 6%. The disparity frequently bears no relation to need. Conant proposes that costs be spread statewide to correct local inequities. He would equalize opportunity nationally by returning part of federal income taxes to the states for school use "as each...