Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prolonged, early-morning blast of locomotive whistles in the Polish industrial city of Poznan that set off a revolt heard round the world. At 7 a.m. one day last week some 30,000 machinists, founders, fitters and laborers of all callings assembled at the locomotive, railroad-car and metallurgical factories on Poznan's outskirts. They were orderly but they were determined, and they had a grievance...
...Pointe aux Trembles on Montreal Island last week, Petrofina opened a new $30 million refinery, designed by Belgian Engineer Baron Prosper de Haulleville. The plant will give year-round service to the company's Eastern Canada outlets. Crude oil will be carried by tanker from Petrofina wells in Kuwait, fed into a pipeline at Portland, Me., then piped more than 200 miles to Montreal so that the flow can be maintained even when the St. Lawrence River is frozen over. Later, Petrofina plans to branch out to Western Canada and eventually to have service stations from coast to coast...
...listing heavily to port, his horn rims and high forehead giving him a scholarly appearance. Before him stood four blowers on trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated the performers to inventive improvisation...
...Saarinen's contemporaries long ago discovered, there is a dynamo of relentless energy behind his easygoing façade. A round-the-clock worker, he sets such high standards of perfection that on occasion he holds his draftsmen and designers at their drafting tables straight through the night, is so prodigal with money for research that he recently spent $12,000 to win a competition that guaranteed only $4,000 in expenses. But judged by the results, Saarinen's total approach pays off. His work has won the applause of the glass and steel purists, yet pleased clients...
...whole life of my wife and of all mankind is death." To Nijinsky and his fellow Outsiders, the average man is drifting on a tide of trivia, self-deception, automatic, day-to-day actions that never reach any significant "level of intensity." Preoccupied with his seemingly orderly daily round, the average man loses touch with the supreme reality of death, according to Wilson, and with the sense of chaos that Santayana says is "perhaps at the bottom of everything...