Word: sharpen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make countersweep preparations, you intend to build three boards studded with spikes. Each board has four spikes. How many spikes do you have to sharpen...
Though the country's spreading sense of unease began long before De Gaulle's present troubles, and goes to the very core of Spain's Establishment, the upheaval in France has served to sharpen and intensify it. Spain has never been exactly a contented country-it has always had too many inequities, too much passion for that- but at no time in recent history has it been beset by such a sense of frustration...
Involvement with city ills has already fired considerable debate among businessmen-and the riot report seems certain to sharpen the argument. Chairman George Champion of Chase Manhattan Bank decries "mass do-gooding at the expense of stockholders." Says Chairman Birny Mason Jr. of Union Carbide: "I'm afraid we're going through another phase of promises that will lead to disillusionment." Still, such analysts of the urban crisis as Director Pat Moynihan of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies (TIME cover, July 28) give corporations high marks for their active concern. "Business has reacted more...
Hysterical Herons. "The trouble with most of today's conductors," says Swarowsky, "is that they are not sure of style. A Dürer is not a Rembrandt; a Bruckner symphony is not a Wagner opera. Each style needs its own realization." To sharpen his students' sense of style, Swarowsky suppresses their personalities, dismisses their interpretive urges as mere dilettantism. He leads them through rigorous analyses of scores. "You learn," recalls Mehta, "what the composer is doing and why, and how he entered the composition-through the back door, as it were. We never heard in Swarowsky...
...sharpen coordination between the 55,000 U.S. combat soldiers and Marines counterpoised for the enemy offensive in the I Corps Area, General Westmoreland last week dispatched his deputy commander and likely successor in Viet Nam, General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams Jr., to Phu Bai to set up a forward command post. Known as "the fightin'est man" in the U.S. Army, the World War II armored-cavalry commander, a West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When...