Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unemployed for a spell, recently got a new job as a fireman on a Southern Railway diesel locomotive. On his first day at work, a supervisor showed him where to sit in the cab of the locomotive and where to find the toilet. Glass already feels confident he can perform a fireman's duties. "I don't do nothin'," he says. "I just...
...comply with that ruling, the Southern had to hire about 100 men, and that is how Willie Glass and the other Negroes got their new jobs. Explains a Southern executive: "Since firemen have no duties at all to perform, no skills, training, physical standards or education are required. In the circumstances, it seemed reasonable to employ unskilled elderly people who are having a hard time finding jobs." The Southern's move was particularly galling to the Brotherhood because until four weeks ago its constitution prohibited Negroes from becoming members. The infuriated union accused Southern of "disrespectful contempt," planned...
...four rooms off a central hall. Their air is supplied by pipeline from the surface, and their purpose is to prove in a preliminary way that men can lead submarine lives for long periods under increased air pressure and sally periodically into the water to explore, catch fish or perform scientific experiments. If they do not return to the low-pressure surface, they will not suffer from the divers' nightmare, "the bends," which is caused by bubbles of nitrogen released in the blood during decompression...
...have no responsibility to the public. The SEC has been trying to run them off the floor for a generation; it says that they enjoy special inside advantages and only accelerate the markets' swings by buying on rises and selling on falls. Floor traders claim that they perform a function by pumping cash into the market at strategic moments, but the SEC group contends that they only follow the trends-and thus accelerate the markets' runaway booms and shattering breaks. Proposed: an end to all floor trading...
Albers is best known for his squares within squares, which leave his colors entirely independent of anything but the simplest form. Anuszkiewicz, now 33, keeps an equally rigid control over his work, but he allows his colors to perform in far more complex settings. In 1960, he began a series of paintings that used only two colors-a "hot" one and a "cool" one. These he placed in patterns made up of almost identical little shapes that moved from background to foreground and vice versa according to how he colored them...