Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home, he learned that California's Stanford Research Institute had similar ideas and would be a willing partner in a meeting to stimulate international investment. S.R.I., a corporation founded by Western U.S. businessmen to research industrial, economic and scientific problems, was an ideal cosponsor. Baker and S.R.I.'s Dr. Weldon Gibson agreed that TLI and S.R.I, together might arrange a conference encompassing the whole world...
...This hall is dedicated to one of the great freedoms-freedom of expression," said its designer, U.S. Architect Hugh Stubbins, 45. "Its form was inspired by an attempt to express that great purpose." To capture the ideal in concrete and steel, Architect Stubbins designed a thin concrete shell roof slung between two bowed-out arches, set underneath as a stabilizer a multipurpose auditorium that by his own admission looked "like a teacup on stilts...
...stockholders warn Indians against being fooled about state control of economic life. Only a handful of men. says he, can be motivated by pure service. The rest must be driven by fear or actuated by hope of gain, as in the United States, which he publicly defends as the ideal of a welfare state that has not sacrificed efficiency or freedom. But Tata is impatient of Americans, feels they do not understand his country's "mixed economy," says: "I wish that sometimes in America points of view were expressed not always in terms of jet black or snow white...
...Consider the Marriage of Figaro. It opens, as an opera should, with an overture. Overtures, though not all composers seem aware of it, are for tidying up. The overture to the Marriage of Figaro is one of the best; it impels you to a gay scurry ideal for the purpose. And then, on to the Venetian blinds! You can't. When the curtain goes up, Figaro is measuring and planning and Susanna is trying on a hat. Their music is for rearranging your furniture in different positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will...
...fired steam electric plant at Glenrock, the company had no more idea of complying, said one company official, "than we had of flying to the moon." But, for the sake of public relations, the company agreed to send geologists. Their reports were eye-popping. Within 15 miles of an ideal plant site were 50 million tons of coal in fat seams, close enough to the surface to be mined by power shovels. Last year Pacific Power broke ground for its new steam plant, whose 17-story boiler-house will be the highest building in Wyoming...