Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...
...squeamish generation-before-last, "the facts of life" were considered shameful. That the process of which every human is a product is still considered so by countless people is not only a shameful but a dangerous state of affairs to U. S. doctors and health officers. Nevertheless, the old taboos die hard. Last week produced an interesting anomaly in the record of modern public health education: a four-page spread of text and pictures of how babies are born. Although it had been approved by the U. S. Post Office, it was banned by local law officers in the Commonwealth...
...contrast to sketches for paintings which were saved by almost all the great masters. The terra cotta sketches are very fragile which may well account for their rareness. The works are of great importance to art students for they often show greater freshness and originality than the finished product and sometimes in this soft material the very finger of the sculptor can be traced...
That the "strikers" did not pull the switches but instead carried on as usual without benefit of outside management was at once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...inside union is in large measure the product of misapprehensions caused by the lengthy negotiations between the University and the waitresses. Unfounded rumors about the University's attitude arising from the seeming impasse probably led some forward-looking employees to think that Harvard would appreciate an inside union and reward its founders. Also a natural desire for prestige would induce a man despairing of achieving prominence in the A.F. of L. to join in building a new union...