Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, two LPs). A radiant reading by Bernstein of Mahler's mammoth, six-movement "musical poem...
...equally important, the states must begin to more effectively and more efficiently use the revenues they now have. Unfortunately. Pennsylvania stands today as a prime example of outmoded and inefficient state government. One item alone stands like a millstone around our neck. I refer to the mammoth spoils system-the worst in the nation. Pennsylvania must clean its own house before she can stand as a bulwark against the monster bureaucracy that daily swells larger in Washington...
...truly ashamed that Mr. Nehru has had the bad grace to voice these sentiments, considering the mammoth help America is pouring into India so graciously and unstintingly, with ''no strings attached." We realize perfectly well that if America so wished, it could have, justifiably, torn our foolish foreign policy to shreds before granting...
...across the dreary Dagenham mud flats east of London, has what may well be the world's worst labor record: it has been hit by crippling wildcat strikes at the chilling rate of more than one a week for the past five years. "The American owners of this mammoth motor concern," editorialized the usually pro-labor Mirror, "would be justified in writing Britain off as a base for their factories." At Dagenham. irresponsible union shop stewards-some of them Communists-ignore appeals for moderation from national union leaders, and march their men off the job for grievances that...
Still, the officer may have a point; the man should have shaved. And Goodman presses it like the single-minded zealot he is. He calls himself an anarchist-which itself has an old-fashioned ring. He wants to break up America's big corporations and other mammoth institutions because they have dehumanized life and robbed the individual of his power of decision and sense of purpose. Overorganization, Goodman charges, has dammed up the natural instincts of human beings, which, if released, would make the world a better place. No other American writer of the present time-either...