Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topic of Finch's formal talk, the problem of preserving the world's natural environment from the destructive effects of industry, technology, and population growth, aroused little controversy. Buthe was challenged on a number of issues in a question and answer period after the speech...
...commission immediately restored complete darkness and isolation for a recuperative period of three months. Instead of diminishing, however, the splotches only spread more rapidly. The French Government became so alarmed that in 1963 it closed off the cave to all but its own investigators. Preparing for the worst, it also ordered the national shrine photographed, so that the irreplaceable Paleolithic paintings would at least be preserved on film...
...gymnasiums have been converted into sound stages, classrooms into editing cubbies. Although most student efforts are not good enough for general distribution, an occasional film is given a limited commercial run. A current example is a feature called Who's That Knocking at My Door?, made over a period of two years at New York University by Martin Scorsese, 26, a graduate student. The film's several weaknesses and excesses prevent it from being totally successful. But it introduces a young director who just may turn out to be one of the brighter talents of this eager...
...library was built in 1942. "This was the time," Philip Hofer, curator of the department of Printing and Graphic Arts, recalled last week "when period styles were going out of fashion and modern art and architecture were coming in. The building was heavily criticized by all the modernists and heavily supported by all the traditionalists-Coolidge, for example, of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch. Abbott. and God." Hofer's eyes twinkled. "Please do not leave out God, because he was one of their junior partners...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy-or even the integrity-of the "classic" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System." I almost suspect this "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us-The Bad Guys-than of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...