Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people do. I don't think they have a militarist vocation. A minority of the military calling themselves, let's say, intellectuals, may try to organize a militarist concept of government. They confuse technocracy and dictatorship and try to introduce technocracy through a military regime, using it as a medium to attain the technocrat's objective...
...Rhythm. For all their skepticism and hedonism, the Now Generation's folk art reflects a uniquely lyrical view of the world. Music is its basic medium, having evolved from the brassy early days of rock 'n' roll into the poignant, pithy beat of folk-rock (or "Rock-Bach" as the West Coast enthusiasts call it). From the controlled venom of the Beatles in a song like Eleanor Rigby ("Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door") to the Eliotesque elegance of Simon & Garfunkel's Dangling Conversation ("Like a poem poorly written/We...
Rushing in last year to finance their building programs with Eurobonds, U.S. corporations disrupted bond markets, shut out other prospective borrowers, such as the Scandinavians, sent interest rates on medium-term bonds of five to ten years' maturity up as high as 7%. Recently, however, the demand for bond money has been more orderly -and more money seems to be available for everyone. Robert Genillard, European partner of the Manhattan investment banking firm of White, Weld & Co., points out that the Eurobond market, now $1.3 billion, is nearly three times as large as it was in 1962. Says...
Orthodox Unorthodoxy. Kandinsky was first introduced to glass painting by his onetime pupil, longtime mistress and painting companion, Gabriele Munter, who had copied the traditional technique from glass paintings she had discovered in the Bavarian town of Murnau, where the two eventually settled. It is a difficult medium; details and glazes are brushed on first, the background pigments next. As the colors are enhanced through the refraction of the glass, the lustrous surfaces glow like medieval icons. Kandinsky, a lifelong Eastern Orthodox, instantly took to his new-found art form, even decorating the frames to give his works a handcrafted...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and Boeing Aircraft Co. for the long-range, 1,800-m.p.h. model to be used in overseas flights. President Johnson is expected to make the final decision about Jan. 1. The FAA also ordered a quick investigation of whether either design could be adapted into a medium-size SST that would avoid the sonic boom that may well restrict the larger plane from flying over land routes. For that study, the FAA gave a $65,000 contract to North American Aviation...