Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comrades. One cheerful man found an air whistle and using it as a tuner, led his car mates in song. Cigarette supplies ran low, newspapers changed hands, a man penciled a sign announcing a new fare rise and marched grimly down the aisles; another stepped out on the car platform and got socked in the kisser with a snowball...
Amid the muffled clank of advancing legal artillery and the kindling of beacon fires from pulpit and platform, the U.S. was lining up for a major debate over federal assistance to religious schools. Ironically, the commander of the forces opposed to aid for private schools was the nation's first Roman Catholic President, and his principal opponents were the hierarchy of his own church...
...other possibilities never open up because the business and political communities never penetrate, and even the legal and medical fields are increasingly resorts after disappointing academic performance. Most students who have heard of Edwin Land and Charles Percy know them as an optical scientist and chairman of the Republican Platform Committee, respectively. That the first has made major contributions to the structure of industrial labor practice and that the latter articulates an important and fairly unusual attitude toward corporate responsibility is unknown...
...scene production, shunning traditional grandiosities, keeps largely to a simple platform stage, at times with no more props than a bench and a tree, and often vivid expressionist lighting. The production suffers, however, from a total lack of style, from seeming solidly, even a little clumpingly, echt Deutsch. It may not seem too German for those who know German; for those who do not, Faust is more rewarding in Marlowe's play, or Berlioz' or Gounod's or even Boito's music. But, if not exactly something to see, as a great classic...
Floating Doughnut. A 14-ft.-diameter, circular fiber-glass motorboat is being offered for sale in Japan by Yamaha Motor Co. Designed for leisurely cruising with the calm sensation of a water lily, or as a roomy fishing boat or diving platform, it is driven by an outboard motor installed through a hole in the center. Price in Japan...