Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viewed in this light, much that appears materially wasteful becomes economically unwasteful. The American businessman, whose profits may depend on his avoidance of waste, has known this for a long time. The consumer is now learning it on a broad scale, and the evidence can be found in any American kitchen. Take the case of the housewife who reels out a yard or so of expensive aluminum foil to catch the drippings from her Sunday chicken. Her husband may argue that this is waste. The wife will contend that it saves her the work of scrubbing the oven. Worth...
Boudin's precise renderings rarely filled more than a 25-in. by 32-in. canvas. Once he had thought he would do larger works. In 1859 he wrote in his notebook of feeling "freed somewhat of timidity; I shall try some broad paintings, things on a big scale and more particular in tone." But he never really managed it, and it is probably just as well. Art needs its tiny jewels as well as its grand masters...
Western-Style Competition. While op erating on the principle that the more unfit a story may be to print the better it will sell, the new Yugoslav papers are indulging in full-scale competition-Western-capitalist style. They sponsor every imaginable promotion gimmick from beauty contests to lotteries. They take unprecedented liberties with the party speeches and production figures that are the standard fare of most Communist journals, and the space they save is larded with crime, sex and show business. Every clay, Vecernje Novosti devotes its center spread to busty beauties, and often adds a disingenuous caption: "What...
...alone cannot effect the restoration of those harmed. Yet money is essential to the salvage operations. Alitalia has been carrying vital conservation materials free of charge, and many experts are donating their time and effort to the rescue operations. But materials must be bought and shipped on a massive scale; more conservateurs must be mobilized...
...confrontation with McNamara and the resulting confusion over a "debate" sidetracked the basic rationale for the demonstration: to confront McNamara as a symbol of a war in which people are killed. The question of "mob" action raised by the Administration and McNamara has little relevance in comparison with the scale of violence that this man represents...