Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom of the press and freedom of speech were clearly established as constitutional rights in the very infancy of the Republic, when the ten amendments collectively known as the Bill of Rights were welded to the U.S. Constitution. Since then, the courts have refereed a seesaw struggle to define the line between freedom and license. Last week, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court unanimously advanced the boundaries of press freedom-and of free speech-farther than they have ever legally reached before...
With corporate profits consistently and spectacularly on the rise for the last ten quarters, a seesaw, record-smashing battle of behemoths is going on. Last year General Motors reported earnings of $1.459 billion on sales of $14.6 billion, more than any corporation anywhere had ever earned in a single year. Last week, however, an old champion regained the crown. Reporting on the twelve months that ended Nov. 30, A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick R. Kappel informed his 2,250,000 shareholders that the telephone company and its sprawl of subsidiaries had net income of $1.522 billion on operating revenues...
...physician of Cremona, Claudio Monteverdi quickly nudged the Italian Renaissance out of its hidebound musical stance. As a young master of the madrigal under the patronage of the ducal Gonzaga family of Mantua, he met with success but grew weary of music's rigid rules. The seesaw violin bored him, so he invented the tremolo and pizzicato...
Ever since World War II-even through ten years of Soviet occupation-the Austrian government has been run jointly by the conservative People's Party and the Socialist Party, like two polite, equally weighted cousins on an inert seesaw. So scrupulously balanced is the coalition and the Proporz system of dividing up the jobs that, according to Viennese table talk, if there is one People's Party Putz-frau (charwoman) in a government building, there must be a Socialist Putzfrau too. After last November's elections, balance became stalemate; the two big parties have been haggling over...
...Seesaw. Shirley MacLaine is pretty funny in a pretty funny film version of William Gibson's Broadway comedy. Robert Mitchum...