Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, he was very nearly right. The growth in the region's economy in recent years, when divided among the population of 220 million, amounts to virtually no growth at all. Alliance for Progress planners figure that a 2.5% per capita annual growth in gross national product is essential. But only two Latin American countries have averaged more than 2% in the past five years. The rest have failed to keep pace with a 2.9% population growth. Almost every sector of the economy is in the doldrums...
When the Philharmonic commissioned the symphony in 1960, Schuman was still president of the Juilliard School of Music. The composing took him, Schuman computes, 645 hours and 30 minutes, and he finished it last June. The symphony was a typically Schuman-crafted product: powerful, impetuous, rhythmically complex and grindingly dissonant-a work more notable for its vigor and blaring momentum than for charm or lyric effects. Schuman, though he is a difficult composer to classify in any specific school, is an easy composer to recognize: in his symphonies he has shown a fascination with quirky, eccentric rhythms, a love...
...middle of a sun-scorched desert, in thirsty earth so deep-down dry that it could soak up Niagara Falls, the blue waters of a sailboat-dotted lake ripple and lap at the parched shore. A mirage? No-the product of a burgeoning new business: lakemaking...
...Champagne Glass. According to their differing philosophies-and the product involved-admen appeal to vastly disparate human emotions: snobbery ("If they run out of Lowenbrau . . . order champagne''), the confusions of parenthood ("How Sears helps your daughter choose her first bra"), nostalgia ("Our beer is 50 years behind the times"), hypochondria ("Take Geritol to end tired blood"), and the competitiveness of childhood ("Every boy wants a Remco toy"). Inevitably, the most heavily used selling themes turn on three aspects of existence that particularly fascinate Americans: youth, sex and romance. Pepsi-Cola, once typed in the public mind...
...melodrama season started there this week with a veritable product of the late nineteenth century, Millard Grosby's She Was Only a Farmer's Daughter...