Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry had already made clear he would not have to fight the battle of Verdon. René quit because Mrs. Mary Kaltman, the new White House "food coordinator," insisted on budget-paring barbarities such as frozen vegetables. Though Haller's main job will be to cook for official dinners and luncheons, he is an accomplished cuisine czar in his own right and will also supervise Mrs. Kaltman's "central storage service," which supplies all three White House kitchens...
...possibility of inflation in a rapidly expanding U.S. economy, ordered his Council of Economic Advisers, then chaired by Walter Heller, to come up with some sort of anti-inflationary formula. They tied wage and price increases to productivity. Recalls a member of Kennedy's council: "One of our main purposes was to show how both wages and prices are related to productivity so that the force of public opinion could be brought to bear when either a company or a union disregarded the relationship." The formula was based on the idea that no union should make contract demands amounting...
...stripped to the bone by the howling winds of life, a man strides past another on a barren pedestal. Both figures are skeletal, their contours a last frontier against nothingness. Both, despite their perilous proximity, seem abandoned in a void. But they exist. This is the main and master image in the art of Alberto Giacometti. It is his desperate, yet defiant picture of mankind, a symbol of the mid-20th century crisis of humanism-and the likeness of Giacometti himself...
Levinson's main criticism, however, and his justification for an activist court, is that Frankfurter didn't realize how much a part of the political process the Court is. He shows that the Court, in fact, legitimizes laws that it upholds. The effects of its rulings are the same as if it were passing on the wisdom of laws, even though it would like to pass only on their constitutionality. Conversely, the Court is subject to political checks. To talk of its imposing its will against the will of a determined public is to neglect the powers of amendment, limitation...
...term paper will be required of students who participate in any of the special productions in any capacity. Students, who do not participate -- even if they work on a Loeb main stage or House play -- will have to write the paper, have ever...