Word: shapes
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Cause of the activity was a special meeting of the economic ministers of the Latin American nations, called by the U.S. to hammer into shape President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, the most vital aid program in the history of the hemisphere. At the start of the conference this week, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, leading the U.S. delegation, will propose a generous, but often stern, program. Even the minimums are staggering. To help raise the per capita income in each country by 2.5% a year, the U.S. intends to pour $1.3 billion a year into Latin America...
...recorded music, 1-2 p.m. next Monday through Friday, is Schubert's Impromptus, selections from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (related to works of art), Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead (related to works of art), Satie's Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pair (related to works of art), Mozart's Symphony no. 36 ("Linz"), and Beethoven's Symphony...
...much-discussed story last year on non-books. This week's Education section has another such inspired exploration of a familiar but unrecognized phenomenon. Education Editor Robert Shnayerson got to thinking about the proliferation of organizations whose initials add up to a message-from CARE to CORE to SHAPE-and discovered that if the Greeks didn't have a word for it, they might have: acronyms. All this adds up to a recommended story this week, "The Acronymous Society." The way things are going, there will soon have to be a new society called BANE...
...ingenious, this year includes trimmings ranging from boa-like looped-wool fringe on suits (by Pierluigi Trico) and enormous pompons on after-ski capes (by Lily Liuba) to colored felt "scoubidou"-like tassels* on ski sweaters (by Lida di Trepuzzi). Centinaro, who calls her line "Penguin" (the pouch-backed shape), shows shiny black spaghetti-fringe collars and olive-green fur linings. Albertina's boutique features knit suits and coats made without cutting or seaming and guaranteed to be sagproof, and Roland-who must have seen The Wild One-spotlights a skintight, all-black leather ensemble...
Disciples are the undoing of holy men, and so it is with Richard Condon, a talented and satirical fantast whose fiercely proselytizing followers regard him as the fifth hoarse man of the Apocalypse. A Condon novel has the sound and shape of a bagful of cats. In The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate and Some Angry Angel, Condon garnered fans with accounts, written in messianic exasperation, of criminal endeavor, fate's falling cornices, widespread venality, the search for truth, Chinese torture practices, and the love of good women. The sort of nuance that drives his fans loopy with admiration...