Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apostle to the adolescents," has a face as wholesome as a glass of milk, though perhaps not quite so interesting. He does not smoke, drink or swear. Some people also say he does not sing, but then some people don't like the way Albert Schweitzer plays the organ. Certainly he does not act, but perhaps that is expecting too much of a lad who is only 26, and who, as he shyly confesses, was spanked by his mother (with a sewing-machine belt) until...
Postmaster General Ed Day has ordered the January and February issues of the departmental house organ, Post Service News, destroyed. Reason: a glowing report by former "General" Arthur Summerfield, containing "highly inaccurate information" about his eight-year stewardship of the nation's mails. When news of Day's censorship reached Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Bennett, he took to the floor of the Senate, announced himself "shocked" at the banning, and inserted the entire Summerfield report in the Congressional Record for all to see. Day might ban or burn the Record, said Bennett, "but that...
...prosaic beginning : Bertoia was simply trying to find a way of making metal wires spring from a core, like petals from a flower or rays from the sun. In other pieces Bertoia clusters metal rods that stand straight up like bronze-colored grass and, when touched, resound like tiny organ pipes. In these the secret of Bertoia's work comes clear. "In my walks home," says he in his whitewashed garage-studio near his farm in Bally, Pa., "I pass by wheat fields swaying in the breeze and can hear the rustling. Sculpture comes alive when the sculptor works...
...during the planting season even longer. By the end of 1958, in the historic "Great Leap Forward," some 550 million peasants in 740.000 cooperatives were swallowed up in 26.500 communes. "We must undermine the capitalist type of social living," said the official Communist organ. Red Flag, "We must undermine the family...
...last week the Soviet government seemed ready to give up the fight. Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khatchaturian admitted a personal preference for the "modern music'' of Duke Ellington. In Soviet Culture, organ of the Culture Ministry, Bandmaster Leonid Utesov made it almost official: ''Jazz is not a synonym for imperialism, and the saxophone is not a product of colonialism." There is no reason why the Soviet Union should consider jazz decadent and bourgeois, said Utesov. "Socalled Dixieland existed in Odessa prior to New Orleans...