Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calder constructs his colossi segment by segment in a studio near his 15th century farmhouse nestled against a limestone cliff, overlooking vineyards and crouched cottages in the chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...
News Front's gift subscribers seem to favor its relatively bland reading fare. One of the most popular features of each issue is also the most unreadable, except perhaps to businessmen: interminable tabulations of what some segment of the business scene spends on research, collects in income, earmarks for advertising-all cast in the eye-straining type that spills from electronic computers. Many of News Front's trend stories demand not only reader attention but reader participation: the magazine is forever sending out lengthy questionnaires to its circulation list (60% of the subscribers usually fill them...
...only segment of West Germany's economy that has failed to recover from World War II is the one in which pre war Germans placed their greatest pride: the aircraft industry. Germany's famed planemakers, who once turned out 48,000 aircraft a year and employed 1,000,000 workers on behalf of the Third Reich, found peace something of a burden. They have developed no important new aircraft, employ only 32,000, and are facing their biggest post war crisis in the phasing out of their contracts to produce Lockheed and Fiat fighters for the German...
...billion-ever made by any corporation, regaining the crown briefly held by American Telephone & Telegraph. Standard of New Jersey became the world's first oil company ever to earn more than $1 billion in a single year. Giant IBM and DuPont both set new earnings records. Hardly any segment of the economy failed to gain. Most of the once ailing railroads made healthy profits, and the airlines, which only two years ago were in a financial tailspin, climbed to new heights of profit. TWA turned a $5,700,000 loss in 1962 into record earnings of $19.7 million last...
This appeal for the mass analysis of a segment of the coming generation of historians is contained in the summary of what is probably the crucial essay in the book, "History and Psychoanalyis: The Explanation of Motive." In this essay, Hughes proposes that perhaps "psychoanalysis can help history to cope with its supreme difficulty--the motivation of great historical actors of the past." This is at once the best and the most uneven of the chapters--uneven in the sense that it is brilliantly lucid and brilliantly erratic in close turn...