Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detroit, by contrast, streaked down the homestretch. Its pitching staff looked sharp, running off 12 straight complete games, and its hitters slugged the ball with authority...
...also predicted that such sharp increases in college fees would become common in the future unless the federal government stepped in to make up the difference between the costs of public and private schooling...
...also recalls that, in a household of overwrought women, he was often left alone as a small boy to play with forbidden toys: sharp umbrella spokes and matches from the kitchen, pins and needles from the sewing box, mirrors and broken glass from a chandelier. These perilous playthings metamorphosed themselves in his mind into icons against the savage man-made destruction outside. Today Lucas Samaras continues to craft them into prickly, disturbing drawings and assemblages. They suggest that pain and anguish lurk in the commonest household object, yet at the same time they glitter with a prideful...
...should last longer than ten minutes, he stuck by his determination "not to play down to the public, but not to be too esoteric either." His program is a shrewd sampling of nine works from his recent recitals, including the noble pathos of Chopin's Polonaise in F-Sharp Minor, the lapidary classicism of two Scarlatti sonatas, and the flashy fireworks of his own Variations on a Gypsy Song from Bizet's "Carmen...
...previous year's 9.5% but still ahead of the 500 U.S. companies, whose sales increase as a group was 7.9%. The profit picture was even more startling. Earnings of the 200 went up by 6.7%, compared with 1966's paltry 0.7% increase over 1965 and in sharp contrast with a 3.1% decrease in earnings...