Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large and thriving new industry has grown up in the Greater Boston area, still closely integrated with basic research at the Institute. As each new scientific laboratory or factory arises around Cambridge, M.I.T. grows important as a supplier of the skills and knowledge at the heart of the new product...
...moment the cannibals are in the form of the Boston metropolitan area, which over the last century has gradually encroached on Cambridge until it now threatens to devour it. The first effects have already been felt. The fully matured product is visible in a slum-surrounded university like Columbia or Chicago...
...conditions. Industrialists see workers forced into often unwelcome patterns, they watch tax rates rising, transportation clogged, and find that archaic land use patterns make physical expansion difficult. But industry, like residents, can move on. The expense is great, but seldom prohibitive if the demand for the product is not lost in the move...
Jones urged educators to stop trying to "sugar coat" the humanities as the humane person would not be the product of a "milk and water version of the subject...
...dark skies and of lilting movement. Looking at it is rather like watching a snowstorm through a windowpane and remembering Thomas Nash's line: "Brightness falls from the air." Jackson Pollock's Scent is a heady specimen of what one worshiper calls his "personalized skywriting." More the product of brushwork than of Pollock's famed drip technique, it nevertheless aims to remind the observer of nothing except previous Pollocks, and quite succeeds in that modest design. All it says, in effect, is that Jack the Dripper, 44, still stands on his work...