Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marianne Moore and Dame Edith Sitwell praised them. Aging (77) Novelist Carl Van Vechten was so impressed that he presented a collection of James Purdy's papers to the Yale library. After British publication last summer, a moderately daring U.S. firm, New Directions, finally took on the Purdy product. On the whole it was worth...
Perhaps most ironic is the extent to which this exhibition reveals the influence of French art to which German expressionism has lately been opposed, especially the poetically inclined canvases of Erich Heckel. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Fauve period Harbor Scene is a product of the movement dominated by Matisse and is a canvas far superior to Schmidt-Rottluff's two later, extremely ungainly, still-lifes. And Jawlensky's Head of a Woman pays tacit tribute both to Matisse and Rouault...
...third quarter, the gross national product increased to an annual rate of $439 billion, $5 billion more than the second quarter. But economists charge all the gain off to price rises; the real value of goods and services produced showed no increase. In October industrial production was down 2 points to 142 on the Federal Reserve Board's index, compared to the boom peak of 147. Though overall employment in October increased slightly to a monthly record of 66 million-and unemployment decreased to 2,500,000-the bulk of the gain was in farm workers; nonfarm workers increased...
...dirty in another. In Science, William H. Shipman and other scientists from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco, tell how they found large quantities of radioactive manganese 54 in the fallout from last year's thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok. Since Mn-54 is not a fission product, they concluded that it was formed when free neutrons from the explosion combined with iron or ordinary manganese, presumably in the bomb's structure. Figuring back, they estimated that "megacurie quantities" were produced...
...these reasons, many a financial expert thinks that the U.S. must not only lift the debt limit; it must also change the way it thinks of the debt. When the ceiling was put on, the debt was 130% of the gross national product. But as the economy grew, the comparative size of the debt shrank until now it is only 62% of the gross national product. Thus, the federal debt could be doubled-and the burden would still be less than it was ten years...