Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search of a visual mode for its subject, West German animator Heinz Edelmann furiously ransacks the past. From the mannerists, he borrows "shot colors" -red blending into orange, blue fading into green. He employs the whiplash and the curvilinear strokes of art nouveau. He features the upholstered monsters of comic strips, the impudent whimsy of Dada, the vibrating poster art of Peter Max. The eclecticism almost becomes a style of its own, and occasionally it is effective, as in Eleanor Rigby when "all the lonely people" appear as gritty newsreel figures who float by each other in a surrealistic frieze...
Singapore's answer to such problems has been a massive effort to convert it self from Asia's largest warehouse to Southeast Asia's largest workshop. To attract industry, the government has channeled millions over the past three years into expanding power and water supplies, building roads and clearing factory sites. School graduates who would have followed family tradition by going into clerking or shopkeeping are being urged to train as technicians and engineers. To preserve responsible wage scales, the government this year passed laws trimming certain fringe benefits and reducing the unions' voice in management...
...savings-and-loan business, no one rivals Charles A. Wellman of Los Angeles as a surgeon for sick companies. In the past three years, he has substantially cured five firms that were suffering from serious financial maladies. Last spring, Wellman succeeded the ousted Bart Lytton as president and chief executive officer of California's Lytton Financial Corp., a huge but ailing holding company with total assets of $682 million. Now Wellman is involved in conducting his most intricate operation yet, which, if successful, will transform three weak S&Ls into one thriving $1 billion enterprise...
...Once I put one past the Harvard band--only once--and that was during a Carnegie Hall performance," Alice said. "I put a sign in Walker's music saying 'Try not to make too big an ass of yourself.' Walker was convinced everybody in Carnegie Hall had seen...
...Faculty miraculously manages to keep its deficit below $500,000 this year, it will be in no trouble. The Faculty has built a reserve fund from past surpluses, and this "departmental balance" of $500,000 is expressly intended to ease year-to-year shortages. If the deficit exceeds the relatively meager limits of the departmental balance, however, Dean Ford will probably ask the Corporation treasurer for a loan. Presumably, if the deficits continued, the Faculty would have to decide either to trim its costs or raise its tuition...