Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newest items in stereo gadgetry: > For the listener who wants to taste stereo's delights on the cheap, here is the Pioneer Stereoscope. A simple, nonelectronic stereo system that requires no amplifiers, wires or speakers, it operates like a doctor's stethoscope attached to a special phonograph tone arm by plastic tubes...
...suitcase, an umbrella, and a canteen. She carries another, smaller suitcase covered with travel stickers, and has a huge purse slung from her shoulder. He wears a black, vested suit with Episcopalian collar; She is plainly and decently dressed, past middle age and, like her husband, obviously of tough pioneer stock. They both seem overheated and fatigued...
...Theodore Roethke, 54, a florist's son from Michigan, who currently teaches English at the University of Washington, is perhaps the most richly gifted and certainly the most exasperating of the three. In much of his poetry he writes like a self-made idiot, a regressive pioneer who chooses to explore the primary ground of being. The ground is often boggy ("Bring me a finger. The dirt's lonesome for grass...
...clean design results in part from Saarinen's admiration of the lines of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in Manhattan. Saarinen decided that the only way to best the master was to be even purer. He took as his clue the words of pioneer Skyscraper Designer Louis Sullivan, "a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." The idea of purity so ruled his design that CBS had to buy two adjoining lots for a utility building, rather than allow the lines...
Playing to Castro's monumental vanity, the Communists at first cheered his every move-harebrained or not-egged him on in his Yanqui hating, persistently praised him as the model of a socialist pioneer...