Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Popes, 18 saints, 40 cardinals. Eleven Orsini women became queens; Orsini men married twelve daughters of kings and emperors. In 1725 Pope Benedict XIII sought to end the continuous feuding between Orsini and Colonna by ordering that the leader of each house should alternate as his Prince Assistant at Mass and other ceremonies of the church, a dignity that ranked them just below a cardinal...
Skulduggery & Gore. Besides reassuring foreigners. Larrazabal's speech sparked a warm reaction among Venezuelan businessmen. Every chamber of commerce in the country promptly pledged support. The Roman Catholic Church celebrated a special Requiem Mass for the more than 300 killed in the fighting. As Larrazabal capped his first week by announcing that elections for a constituent assembly will be held before the year is up, presidential elections six months later, investigators began rooting through the ruins of Pérez Jiménez' tumbled empire. Newspapers filled columns with gruesome stories of the dictator's sadistic security...
...high wages, surplus-producing subsidies, featherbedding, Keynesian deficit financing, etc. Through such "creeping socialism," labor's share of the wealth produced has increased from an estimated 50% in 1870-80 to 70% in 1956. Yet this redistribution, argue K. & A., while it may have been necessary to boost mass purchasing power, is unjust...
...would it give workers (except in theory) relatively more than they have today under high wage scales? Or, if the redistribution of capital were sizable enough to make a real difference, would there be enough capital concentration for new enterprise? Furthermore, the K. & A. vision of a coupon-clipping mass aristocracy engaged in "the pursuit of civilization" may be hard on men without the taste or the IQ to qualify for it. Indeed, in implying the indignity of labor and downgrading "the pursuit of wealth," K. & A. may unwittingly be removing the intellectual pistons that keep capitalism functioning...
...series of aluminum louvers automatically regulated by a photoelectric mechanism that opens them to the sky on cloudy days or at dusk, gradually closes them as the sun brightens. (This system is similar to that of the superbly lit Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.-TIME, May 7, 1956.) The natural light is next deflected by a synthetic-wood barrier-to the side walls of the gallery below, passing through ceiling panels of glass wool sandwiched between sheets of glass to diffuse it evenly over the pictures. Artificial light concealed above the translucent ceiling panels supplements...