Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The problems are mostly about pay, not politics. "The wage rate," says one RMK-BRJ official, "is the most explosive issue facing this outfit." Surprisingly, the combine wants to pay more but cannot. The wage lid is being held down tight by both the U.S. embassy and the Vietnamese government...
The University has approved even higher pay schedules for faculty members, which will go into effect July 1. The raises were needed. Dean Ford said, to increased living costs and competition from other colleges. For example, though Harvard's pay scales are the highest, many other colleges offer junior faculty...
These queer exercises in disjunctive verse don't observe the ethics of polite conversation. Henry is addressed as Mr. Bones by a cat who might himself be Mr. Bones, but isn't. Moreover, there are no quote-marks and no stage directions, and there is no clear distinction made between...
After presenting information theory in a way that should attract none but the credulous ("intuitively"), he rehashes and relabels the audiology of Stevens and Davis, date 1938. Psychophysics has advanced since then. The translator has inserted one wistful reference to the sone and mel scales of loudness and pitch, but...
In Chicago, the Woodlawn Organization, a belligerent, Alinsky-forged army of Negro slum dwellers, employed rent strikes and picketing to win concessions ranging from tenement repairs to honest scales. In California, 30 Alinsky-founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was...