Word: lots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasm of the intellectuals. Mao's response-to treat all intellectuals as suspect and force them into "remedial" manual labor by the hundreds of thousands-may produce obedience, but hardly provides the climate for intellectual creativity. The great, vast public, foreign observers report, seems more resigned to its lot, and even grateful for the orderliness that keeps warlords from swooping down on farmers to steal their harvests. But in a nation that has only a paper-thin economic surplus to invest in industrial growth, a loss of mass enthusiasm and a consequent drop in production could be no less...
...recent months British newsmen have swarmed over SAC headquarters at Omaha, flown H-bomb patrol over Alaska, eyewitnessed moon shots at Cape Canaveral, studied the lot of the Manhattan chairwoman, tuned in on Beat-Generation talk in San Francisco. London Sunday Times Reporter Kenneth Pearson flew over to file a three-part series on the Broadway musical, West Side Story-inspiring the London Daily Express to fly the West Side troupe to London for a night...
...engaged in the power struggle. Our profession has managed to make of arduous work a pleasure by transmuting pressures into power-with, rather than power-over, others . . . Only those who know the military or have experienced the industrial form of organization will fully appreciate how lucky is our academic lot ... It is good, how good, to share the unearned increments of joy arising from continuous collaboration of youth...
...just one hour. 29 middling-good impressionist and post-impressionist pictures were sold for a whopping $1,528,500. The auction was so crowded that 5,000 people were turned away, and half of the 2.000 ticket holders were forced to watch the bidding on closed-circuit television. The lot had been collected in a hurry over the past few years by Hotelman Arnold Kirkeby (Hampshire House, Beverly Wilshire. Saranac Inn, El Panama). He was selling them off faster yet. Top record-breaker of the evening: $152,000 for an early and not especially rewarding Picasso that cost just...
...flexible new rules also scrap old regulations that tied architects' hands, kept architectural design from changing to meet new patterns of living. Builders no longer are bound by minimum-lot sizes and rigid house-placement rules, may vary developments as long as light, ventilation and outdoor-activity space are adequate. Once-banned inside kitchens are now allowed, saving the outer or window walls for living and sleeping space. So are new, low-cost bedsitting or kitchen-dining combinations. Also new: architects may choose from a wide variety of products as long as they meet careful performance tests...