Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lobby and pressrooms, that the Nixons would prefer something not quite so abstract as the Tobeys and Youngermans featured there under Lady Bird's tenancy. Those particular paintings have consequently vanished, but their replacements are still works by contemporary Americans. The show that has been on during past months includes Wolf Kahn's diffused Yellow House (1967), Roy Moyer's semi-abstract Cypresses (1968), John Button's Hopperesque Lake Erie (1968), and an assortment of paintings by artists from other schools and other parts of the country. Hidden in private offices can even be found...
Devotees of St. George and St. Nicholas were more solemnly perturbed. In London, Tory M.P. John Biggs-Davison, a Roman Catholic, wondered if "Anglicans and Orthodox were consulted, in the spirit of Christian unity. Cavalrymen laying their wreath at St. George's statue, Scouts marching past the sovereign on St. George's Day will think no less of their patron, but they will think less kindly of Rome." In Washington, D.C., the Russian Orthodox community expressed its feelings by packing the church for a May feast day honoring St. Nicholas. Some Orthodox churchmen complained that Rome insulted their...
...consumers are deeply troubled by another major source of national tension: the rising pace of inflation. Though the U.S. standard of living is still the highest ever achieved, the value of the nation's currency is dwindling alarmingly. It has gone down by almost two-thirds in the past 30 years. A 1958 dollar is worth only 790 today, which means that a man must earn 26% more after taxes to buy the same goods. This year the erosion in purchasing power has sharply accelerated. A dollar received as recently as January is worth only...
...force that unbalances everything. Though 16% of the nation's plant capacity stands idle, businessmen have been expanding their factories at a record rate, buying machines and materials now to beat further price rises and economize on scarce and costly labor. Export prices have risen more during the past year in the U.S. than in any other major country but Canada and Britain, and the nation's traditional trade surplus has all but disappeared. Wage gains are exceeding the increase in workers' productivity, pushing up costs all around. Some of the fastest rises...
Considering the sad record of the past, the idea of a good German ballet troupe might seem as implausible as a Nepalese surfing club. Times have definitely changed. Not long after the curtain lifted at the American debut of the Stuttgart Ballet last week, the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House was cheering in disbelief at the light-as-air elegance of a pack of young gazelles from the edge of the Black Forest...