Word: haphazards
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Half way through, the picture does pick up a loose plot. After watching a movie about mail delivery in America, the letter carrier decides to modernize his own haphazard methods. But when he takes his job seriously, he scatters leisurely groups of chickens, geese, and villagers in all directions as he races through his route. In the end, American efficiency looses out to the slower pace of France, and peace returns to the village. But the interval of madness, while it lasts, is very entertaining...
...themes. Nivola's block-sculpture is organically interrelated and stylized. There is a certain dullness in the texture of the concrete, especially when combined with smooth, anonymous geometric forms. He has tried to create more interest by marking the surfaces but in terms of whole figures, these markings seem haphazard. Nivola also attempts to create interest in the surfaces by applying color. The scale of this experimentation seems as yet too limited, except in one bas-relief panel. Here the color gives real character to the surrealistic fantasy...
...Moore's day has been a full and satisfying one, well-paced, productive, and shaped for efficiency. It requires a real planner to conceive and carry out such a day; modern farming is no job for the amateur, the incompetent, the haphazard or the lazy. Today's farmer must invest in tractors and other expensive labor-saving equipment. A poor manager has too much to lose and too many ways to lose...
Died. Herbert Putnam, 93, longtime (1899-1939) Librarian of Congress; in Woods Hole, Mass. Appointed by President McKinley, Dr. Putnam transformed the library's haphazard collection of less than a million volumes into one of the world's largest (over 10 million books and pamphlets), developed a new system of classification, supervised the purchase of a valuable European collection of incunabula, including a Gutenberg Bible...
This seemingly haphazard procedure outraged purists among infectious-disease experts, who insisted that every batch of vaccine should be rigorously retested, even if this meant delaying the entire inoculation program a month, with the consequence that in many states it could not be completed before the polio season's peak. But Dr. Scheele was more anxious to reassure than to alarm. Although there is no apparent difference between the vaccine ordered held up and the 5,000,000 or more shots already used. Surgeon General Scheele insisted that "the parents of children who have received [the] vaccine this spring...