Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that there was one definite sign of concern: an increase in the use of the Security Council. "If you look it up, the number of meetings of the council has increased every year. It seems that large countries have decided that the council is the most useful medium for settling their problems...
...increasing number of low-and medium-income families (who could never hope to retire so lavishly) are going to have second thoughts about buying a new car in which they contribute handsomely to auto workers' benefits [Sept. 18]. Such fantastic demands were not made on the auto manufacturers; they were aimed squarely at the car-buying public, and may well be the needle to prick the economic balloon L.B.J. is flying...
John O'Hara, who wrote those lines in a prologue to Sermons and Soda-Water, a trio of novellas published in 1960, likes to think of himself as a social historian whose principal medium happens to be fiction. When Historian Allan Nevins said that no one could really understand the U.S. of the 1930s without reading O'Hara's novel Butterfield 8, the author took it as the handsome compliment it was intended to be. The journalist in O'Hara ever lurks just beneath the surface of the novelist; Butterfield 8, in fact, was a piece...
...trio of SST engineers tried hard to overcome doubts. Though many airmen have feared that the SSTs would be useless for medium-range flights because of the lengthy ascents they require to reach cruising altitudes, the engineers insisted that the planes will be practical down to flights of only 600 miles, will be able to operate productively for ten hours a day v. nine for the present jets. They held out promise that the sonic-boom problem will be solved eventually, possibly by delaying until high altitudes the crossover from subsonic to supersonic speeds. Most of all, they stressed...
...show at Manhattan's Associated American Artists print gallery reveals how diverse are the means of graphic art. Called "The Plate, the Block, the Stone and the Print," the show contrasts the medium with the result-often as dramatic as the difference between rabbit glue (that's one new art material) and beauty. The apparently blank expression of a plate can, when variously inked and pressed on paper, become more radiant than a rainbow...