Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water's higher level is clearly evident in the yearly rise in a slimy black-green line on the palazzi along the Grand Canal. Because of the melting of polar ice, the sea level at Venice is rising .055 in. a year. At the same time, the island is sinking .106 in. a year -partly because industrialists and farmers have been pumping away the cushion of underground water. An even more serious factor has been dredging operations in the lagoon between Venice and Marghera, its rapidly expanding industrial satellite on the mainland...
Though he was not Jewish, Gropius left Germany in disgust at the rise of the Nazis in 1934, worked in London for three years, then came to the U.S. In 1938, he accepted the post of chairman of Harvard's Department of Architecture, and the school quickly became the focus of young talent, including such now famous architects as Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Ulrich Franzen, John Johansen and I. M. Pei. Gropius insisted that their work meet society's needs and that they move ahead alongside industry-until then largely overlooked by architects as a partner in their...
Consumers are gloomy, too. The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center found in its second-quarter study that an overwhelming 77% of consumers expect prices to rise as rapidly or even more rapidly in the next year as in the past twelve months. The Center found no confidence that higher interest rates would curb inflation. George Katona, director of the survey, noted that earlier questioning showed many consumers expressing confidence that Nixon could bring inflation under control. His interpretation of the new findings: "The Nixon honeymoon is over...
Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee last week, Treasury Secretary Kennedy defended the recent rise of the prime interest rate as a normal and necessary response to inflation. Said he: "We are paying for past sins...
...aesthetic influence. A healthy chunk of the French New Wave's conception of film comes from Neo-Realism (Antonioni, visconti, Rossellini, de Sica, Fellini). Neo Realism's original choice of social reality for subject-matter and its tendency to documentary as method had a tremendous influence in France, giving rise to a large school of French documentarists (Jean Rouch, Chris Marker) and a larger consciousness of film as more that a purely fictional narrative medium. Andre Bazin, father of modern film criticism, stressed the integrity of the photographed event, the virtue of films which preserve a measure of reality...