Word: pendulum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general election that swept the British Conservatives back to power last October left more than the defeated Laborites worried by Labor's defeat. In a country that invented the political theory of the Loyal Opposition and governs itself by the swing of the party pendulum, what kind of alternative choice is there in a doctrinaire and out-of-date party that had won only two general elections in half a century, and had just gone down to defeat for the third time...
...summer was an airy, two-floor wing on the regular building with a score of stunning innovations. The chemistry lab has diamond-shaped worktables with ample drawer space and plentiful balances. The physics lab ceiling has hooks and pulleys at 3-ft. intervals for all manner of gravity and pendulum experiments. An electronic control board supplies any kind of electricity to every lab table. This year St. Charles will begin teaching the new M.I.T. physics course. The goal is that at least 10% of the students will have had two years of college work by the time they graduate...
...Braves into a first-place tie with a 3-2 victory over the Phils, to win the 267th game of his 15-season major-league career. The Giants' Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones. 33 (TIME, Sept. 21), had pitched so often that his battered right arm swung like a pendulum. But somehow Sam managed to no-hit the Cards 4-0 in a game stopped by rain after seven innings, kept his third-place team in contention...
...roams Manhattan with his 16-lb., battery-operated recorder, flicks it on in buses. subways, cabs, restaurants and elevators. His recordings of street singers, songs by national groups, church services in Harlem have provided the basis for nearly a dozen pop songs, including Sippin' Soda (Guy Mitchell), The Pendulum Song (Nelson Riddle), Wimoweh (Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers). In his midtown Manhattan apartment, such singers as Pete Seeger, Josh White, Harry Belafonte have sampled Schwartz's 1,500 hours of recorded tape, including more than 5,000 songs from some 40 countries...
Weeding through 1,600 entries, Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams concluded that the pendulum may at last be swinging back to Levine's (and Bierstadt's) way. So far, Williams finds this trend toward more representative subjects only partially successful. Says he: "There is a more or less lost generation of young painters who turned up their noses at the basic disciplines of draftsmanship and just jumped into abstraction. Although they are now trying to use figures, they can't make the switch because they haven't had those early disciplines...