Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing In the Good Old Summertime against Composer Schwartz's Coney Island Boat, or while she is riding with Wilbur Evans through the Tunnel of Love, or going up in a Fourth of July balloon, it is all very festive. And when Mae Barnes lets go with Happy Habit, or sparks the second act with Hang Up, it is all very fine. Arthur Schwartz's score is pleasant; there are some lively Tamiris dances and attractive Mielziner sets. The show needs more boardwalk and less book, but Shirley Booth makes amends, on the whole, for Shakespeare...
...guaranteed wage plan to work in the hard-goods industries, production would have to be stabilized and buying habits changed. But how? The steel industry, for example, cannot store products because it makes most of them on order to exact specifications. The auto industry could stabilize some 19% of the steel industry (the amount of steel it buys) if it could find a way to get around the public's habit of buying cars in the spring and making the old one do during slumps. To even out buying, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther once suggested a sliding price scale...
...diverted the whole course of seicento [17th century] painting." Even as it was, he inspired dozens of later masters. Rubens borrowed from his swirling, figure-full compositions; Vermeer took over and refined his trick of illuminating dim interiors with dramatic shafts of light; Rembrandt adapted to deeper use his habit of painting the faces of real people mysteriously veiled in shadow; Georges de La Tour appropriated his favored color scheme (red on black); Velasquez, the realest of realists, gained conviction from Caravaggio's absolute devotion to nature...
Taboo. In Kyoto, Japan, Yukitoki Yakigawa, president of Kyoto University, summed up in a speech to the graduating class: "My final warning to you is ... never touch a drink paid for by others. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks...
...major U.S. corporations are developing a new and expensive habit: when they feel the need for big-scale celebration, they buy up all the TV time in sight. Last year, on its 50th anniversary, the Ford Motor Co. took over NBC and CBS for a two-hour extravaganza starring Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. This week, General Foods celebrated its 25th anniversary by spending $250,000 to capture all four TV networks for a 90-minute show. Another $500,000 went into a glittering array of stars who tackled the job of re-creating the "great moments" from the musicals...