Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most beer drinkers believe that kegged beer tastes better than bottled beer,* and bottled beer better than canned. Kegged beer is better because it is fresher, is not pasteurized and contains less air. (Air helps beer to oxidize, thus become stale). Bottled beer also contains less air than canned beer, which to many drinkers has a metallic taste. In Budweiser's $1,000,000 laboratory, one of the biggest in the industry, 225 technicians are currently at work, some of them on a new can-crimping machine that will cut down on the air, keep canned beer as fresh...
...unfair to Kick Lamont, especially after it has been down for so long. Hours have finally been extended, and the air conditioned palace is open on Sunday for those who labor. There is a rumor, of course, that the circulation system has been flipping the same air, like a stale pancake, from level to level for six years. It is also hinted that the blinking and gurgling neon lights are designed to keep people awake. If so, success is not entirely apparent, for some drowsy lads always sleep through the 2:15 grind, only to get the Administration...
...Oxford is a neat, small, coherent, and stale crew. Their form has commanded plaudits from all sides, but their speed and racing Instinct is highly dubious. By English standards Cambridge has a large crew, by three pounds the heaviest ever to row in the Boat Race. We are certainly not as smooth, but have far more power and vigour...
...composers and some 20th century organists, gets its comeuppance. Because it has four notes belonging to widely distant keys, Editor Blom recalls a reference to it as a railway station, from which it is "possible to get to any destination in the shortest possible time . . ." He adds, "It became stale . . . not only because later composers abused its sensational nature but also because as a harmonic device it represents a line of least resistance." ¶ Schoenberg's once highly controversial twelve-tone system is recognized as a technique of worldwide significance in 20th century composition...
Emancipation Day. After some years, he began to have a modest reputation for mahogany-brown canvases. He himself decided that they were stale as last week's coffee, and turned to impressionism. His impressionist works dazzled some critics, but failed to satisfy their creator. One day he destroyed a just-finished still life, simply because "it did not express me or express what I felt." He counted his emancipation from that day, but at the turn of the century Matisse was still trying to find his true path...