Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management continues to bestow extras on its own (as it often has), fringes may replace wage boosts: "Both labor and management need to reconsider . .. The American appetite for more security against the risks of life, coupled with the desire for more time off with pay, is virtually a bottomless pit into which the whole economy could fall-at the expense of the wage structure which in the last analysis constitutes the real base of our national standard of living...
...Legend, by Richard Matheson (Gold Medal Books, paperbound; 25?). When Robert Neville's wife finally died in 1975, he refused to carry her body to the huge, burning pit into which other victims of the mysterious disease had been dumped. Instead, he buried her secretly. That night there was a fumbling at his door: it was his wife, come back to drink his blood. For she. like the others, had become a vampire. This embarrassing domestic crisis (he eventually drives a stake through her heart) is only one of the milder episodes in I Am Legend. Every night...
...announcement that Germany would be given sovereignty (and the right to rearm) whether France liked it or not. But even after that, Western policy for Europe continued to remain in abeyance, while EDC, in both its aspects, was left half-dead and subject to further clawing in the bear pit of French politics...
...Eight members of New York's Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging reported last week that Hollywood is the "archfoe" of the elderly. Reason: movies portray old age as "a trap, a pit, a hopeless end,'' and glorify "teenage super-beauties as the American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe...
Although Now for Nordine is only a few weeks old, Nordine himself is no stranger to experimental television. For more than a year he has been frightening and delighting Chicago audiences with eerie readings of classic horror tales such as Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls. He calls this show Faces in the Window, plays weird music as he reads and scares his listeners with a bagful of simple but effective tricks. For a story where a man is hanged, he had the camera turn slowly back and forth to suggest...