Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Echoing Appeal. During 1956. he reported, "rising costs became an increasingly pervasive factor" in the economy (see BUSINESS). A major cause of inflation was a round of wage increases not based on any substantial increase in labor productivity. Output per worker, after rising an average of 3% a year during the postwar decade, registered "only a very small gain," he pointed out, while average hourly earnings in manufacturing and construction went...
Viewers can look forward to lots more of Disney: last week he signed a $9,000,000 contract to do three filmed series for ABC next season, including another round of Disneyland. For nine weeks millions of viewers suffered through their TV screens with young (30), curl-cropped Charles Lincoln Van Doren as he stood inside one of the soundproof pressure cookers of NBC's game of chance, Twenty-One, and answered a staggering variety of questions ranging from Lincoln to Latin America, from chemistry to comic strips. Last week...
...gives the play any life. A split-level whodunit should have more concealed and built-in features: who is guilty is very soon obvious, and as a moral drama, The Hidden River lacks flesh and innards. Not only has the problem created the people, instead of the other way round, but the characters are shown too much under mere scrutiny and too little under stress...
...America. His classes are drawing a wider variety as well as a larger number of students since the war. Painters and psychiatrists seem especially interested in Zen, he finds. Psychoanalysts, says Dr. Suzuki, his tiny eyes twinkling under winglike eyebrows, have a lot to learn from Zen: "They go round and round on the surface of the mind without stopping. But Zen goes deep." The main difficulty Westerners have with Zen, says Suzuki, is their habit of thinking dialectically-either-or. sub ject-object, positive-negative. Zen sees only one instead of two. "Westerners analyze things," says Dr. Suzuki...
Once the team has warmed up by playing a game, however, it has been unbeatable. This pattern was demonstrated last weekend when the sextet dropped its first-round Beanpot game to B.U., 5 to 3, on Friday and then went on to crush Brown, 7 to 0, on Saturday...