Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that had too many pictures anyhow. The "Jazz" article never gets with it, either in terms of music, style, or personalities. The "Harvard Science" feature begins like a melodramatic parody of Time magazine--"It was the year of the rocket. . . . It was the year of the sputnik. . ." The science item is rather confusing and its most distinctive trait is a number of large pictures of dull grey buildings...
...hope you will grant me the space to amplify certain details in your news item of May 6 relative to my proposal in the current Alumni Bulletin to establish a Chair of Naturalistic Humanism at the Divinity School...
Coffee, the biggest item, is the victim of a growing surplus that Latin American producing nations are fighting by buying up millions of bags and withholding them from the market. The double cost: printing-press inflation to pay the bills, lower dollar income because of the unsold coffee. Brazil's sober O Estado de São Paulo mourned that "even a frost of catastrophic proportions would not solve Brazil's coffee problems." In the same gloomy key, a Uruguayan wool exporter said: "Only another Korean war could save...
...watches, lingerie, television sets and bubble gum began moving across the border. Wooden handles stamped "made south of parallel 42" were slapped into imported shovels, wooden bases with the same markings were attached to Japanese sewing machines, and all the loot found its way north to market. Most lucrative item of all was the automobile, legally subject to duties of six times or more its U.S. market value. Second-hand cars shipped to Patagonia from the U.S. were driven north across the border, repainted, equipped with forged papers and sold for profits of 800%. Total contraband within the first year...
...been buying a huge volume of goods, and they're pleased with their high standard of living. But just as services-TV repairing, dry cleaning, and such-have got more expensive, a lot of them got steadily worse. Goods, too, have declined in quality. Even such a basic item as the modern house is not what it should be; it's often thrown together like a woodshed...