Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phone booth? In Oklahoma, the phone itself had been removed. Thus we must ask: is a phone booth without a phone a true phone booth? (This recalls the famous query: does the sound of a waterfall exist if no one is there to hear it?) Then there is the matter of the booth's dimensions, variously reported as 3 feet by 3 feet by 7 feet and as 32 inches by 32 inches by 7 feet. Most booths have the latter dimensions (see Alec Beil, Specifications and Measurements for the Construction of Telephone Booths in the Continental United States, vol.1...
...Olympian majesty" specified by Shaw is missing; Tanner's magnificent brashness becomes mere cheek. Mr. Morse can lay down doctrine with considerable brio, but his John Tanner never seems committed to his ideas with any great intensity of the "moral passion" he talks about. It becomes a matter of little significance that the revolutionary activities of this Tanner should be circumscribed by marriage. (His air of frivolity vanishes during the hell scene, but here his attempt at the aristocratic chill becoming to Don Juan degenerates sometimes into mere posturing...
Blough believes that collective bargaining is a matter of give and take, and that industry has been doing most of the giving. As head of Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and 232,000 employees, he presents his reasons for crying "halt" as if he were preparing a legal brief. Says he: "The results of collective bargaining between the companies and the steelworkers' union have been characterized by unsustainable cost increases, major strikes and government intervention. It is time to raise the question as to whether nationwide wage policies, industry-wide strike power, the ability to shut down...
...deals with soft currencies. "When a Brazilian writes a letter to a German and an American steel firm," admits a U.S. steelman, "he gets back a letter from the American firm-and a salesman from the German firm." Says a Belgian steelman: "For countries like us, exporting is a matter of living, but the U.S. incentive for export is much smaller, because of its big internal market. They are not really trying...
...streets of Lowell, stars in a track meet, eats, sleeps, walks home three miles after holding hands with his girl Maggie (as far as sex goes, the book is innocent enough to be read by a bishop, or a postmaster general). Everything is lengthily reported, but none of it matters much. Perhaps the trouble is that young Duluoz does not matter. As a brash, noisemaking ten-year-old, he lived in a world full of wonders; as a teenager, he seems gross and unimaginative. Maggie Cassidy was taken, like most of Kerouac's recently published books, from an apparently...