Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modcom is the commercial exploitation of modernity without regard for dramatic art. Modcom peddles the youth cult as a product. It is replete with cynical counterfeits of innocence, freedom and dissent. Enough evidence has now accumulated about how to put together a Modcom show. The rules...
...themselves. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend sometimes drives subordinates to distraction by slamming doors repeatedly in the ear-splitting confines of a testing garage. American Motors Chairman Roy Chapin likes to go into his company's executive parking area to try out the thunk. Ford has a jury of product-development specialists to pass judgment on thunks...
What kind of sound do Detroit's acousticians attempt to achieve? At G.M., says Product Engineer Jim Leslie, the goal is "ker-chuck-that's what we want, ker-chuck." Chrysler, says Executive Body Engineer Jim Shank, aims for "the kind of sound you get when you drop a ripe pumpkin in the mud.v The ideal sound for American Motors, says Adamson, is "a clump-not a clink, clatter or clunk, but a clump." Of course, he concedes, "we will never reach the ultimate sound." Undeterred, scientists continue to chase across farm fields by dark of night, stethoscopes...
...Waterfall, Miss Drabble's self-victimizing heroine is the well-inhibited product of a "faintly clerical background." Jane Gray finds life's natural processes an overwhelming ordeal. Marriage is a great unease. Pregnancy is "almost unendurably frightening...
Indeed, essential to any intelligent public approach to drugs is the realization that they are not an isolated phenomenon but a product of a complex and often frustrating society. Adults must get used to the fact that their world has witnessed the growth of a separate youth culture, or "counterculture." For many of the kids in it, pot is a part of growing up, and the great majority have no intention of freaking out for good. The young need myriad new opportunities to come to terms with life. In the long run, adults can do most to allay