Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announce that you compose away from the piano. It doesn't matter whether you do or not, but you must always say so ('I visualized the entire oratorio in a flash while washing the dishes')." ¶ "When you get there, kick over the ladder. You will undoubtedly teach, and you must remember at all times that every student represents a potential rival. A little bad advice, discreetly given, has halted or slowed many a career." ¶ "Have money. Birth, marriage or fraud are the three most suitable sources...
...White men did not work; they merely wrote secret signs on scraps of paper, for which they were given shiploads of goods . . . Plainly the goods must be made for Melanesians somewhere, perhaps in the Land of the Dead. The Whites, who possessed the secret of the cargo, were intercepting it and keeping it from the hands of the islanders ... In the Madang district of New Guinea, after some 40 years' experience of the missions, the natives went in a body one day with a petition demanding that the cargo secret should now be revealed to them, for they...
...contraptions on view and the high-flown talk of motivation, it might have been a meeting of circus showmen or of sociologists. Instead, it was the annual meeting of the Super Market Institute, gathered in Atlantic City last week to demonstrate that today's supermarket operators must be both showmen and sociologists to sell their goods. As choosy as shopping housewives, and twice as voluble, the 13,000 delegates wended their way through aisles crowded with 530 displays, talked about changes in the U.S. supermarket...
...hand. The glacierlike forces of a powerful labor movement, including unions representing workers in hundreds of competitive groups, adopt objectives that largely contradict the competitive principle itself." They also imperil profits, the chief means to improve production. "All consumers benefit from improved tools of production, which profits must pay for, and competition is what provides the environment in which profits are created." Yet today, says Blough, wages and costs have spiraled so far out of line that enough profits cannot be accumulated to buy the needed new tools...
...hopefully insisted that railroad passenger service "is, and for the foreseeable future will be, an integral part of our national transportation system and essential for the nation's well-being and defense." But it conceded that if the railroads are to continue in the passenger business, some changes must be made. Among specific reforms proposed...