Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dolls for Britain. Christian Dior is a product of three centuries of elegance that run back to the reign of King Louis XIV. To control the restive feudal nobles he subdued, Louis built the huge palace at Versailles, turned it into a vast gilded cage where the aristocracy, cut off from their lands, were reduced to an idle group waiting on the Sun King. In that sumptuous court, elegance became an obsession, and Louis put the obsession to use. He organized Paris' dressmakers and tailors. Two life-sized dolls, dressed in the latest fashions, were shipped monthly across...
...Tight Little Island" pretty effectively spoofs a number of things, but in doing so also satirizes man's almost complete dependence on the most valuable manufactured product of the civilized world--alcohol. Although the film takes the only supportable position, derision of the teetotalers, it does not sufficiently revere alcohol's place in the modern world...
...idea. John Dewey began the same revolution in our schools a half century ago, only to see the mediocre turn his revolution into a regression to the cult of ignorance. The whole attitude is apparently related to the philosophic emphasis on process rather than product. We are coming to believe that it is more important to understand creativity than creations, artists rather than...
...effective way to expand our trade, and that is to increase our imports from the area. The Eisenhower Administration has been notably successful in defending its trade policy toward Latin America, despite an annual barrage of proposed laws, tariffs and other restrictions designed to eliminate some competitive Latin American product...
Strontium 90 is probably the most-feared fission product. Chemically similar to calcium, it is absorbed along with calcium by the human system and deposited in the bones, where its persistent radioactivity (half-life 28 years) may cause cancer. Collecting 500 samples of fresh human bone from widely separated parts of the world, the Columbia men analyzed them delicately and concluded that "at the present time, strontium 90 can be found in all human beings, regardless of age or geographic location s . ." The amount is not large. Averaging all the results together, they reckoned that the human race...