Word: invents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assertive manner that conflicts with his shy appearance. "You might as well do things that amuse you. It takes me a long time to write a piece of music-anywhere from months to years-and simple ideas would bore me before I got through. Anyway, I want to invent something I haven't heard before...
...case of the New England manufacturer who booted his incompetent production manager upstairs to "vice president in charge of personnel," where subordinates handled the job he was supposed to do. Many a corporate head creates positions to make work for friends, said A.I.M., and some invent titles merely to surround themselves with yesmen. Asks A.I.M.: "How can management, in all fairness, complain at labor featherbedding when managements are so widely guilty of the same practice? In management featherbedding. the damage is greater, the cost is larger and the bad example is more obvious...
...Invent?" Though Le Temps' backing comes from executives in top business firms, e.g., Michelin tires, Citroën, Esso Standard Oil, the backers (as Esso Standard Oil took pains to point out in its own case) went in as individuals, not corporations. Nevertheless, the bugaboo of business control of newspapers is a real one in France. When some 60 dailies cluttered Paris kiosks in the 1920s, bankers and munitions makers kept newspapers like mistresses. By World War II, big business had a firm grip on the major Paris dailies. Afterward, millions of angry Frenchmen blamed business for the papers...
...press still commands little esteem from Frenchmen. By U.S. standards, most papers are typographically jumbled, abound in inaccurate and slanted, misleading stories. Foreign correspondents in Paris soon get over the shock of having officials suggest when information is unavailable: "Why don't you invent something...
Baschet's first musical invention was a collapsible guitar, built around an inflatable plastic cushion. It has a soft, seductive tone, can be deflated or patched like an inner tube. "After I invented it, I wanted to know why it worked," he explains. The search led him to Paris' National Library and books of 19th century acousticians, e.g., Helmholtz. Their theoretical discussions flashed through Baschet's teeming imagination and emerged as sounds-new sounds of otherworldly groans, melodious thuds and haunting echoes, which came from the vibrations of two metal spirals plus a plastic resonator. Baschet took...