Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suit (two pairs of pants) that rarely gets a pressing, and usually washes his own nylon shirts in the bathroom. His wife used to go on tour with him, but he was nervous whenever he knew she was listening to him. ("When are you going home?" is his standard question to her whenever she comes to hear him play.) Despite his casual, smiling manner and his slouching walk, Brubeck is constantly tense. Unlike other musicians, jazz players of Brubeck's type cannot simply sit down and play from memory or from the sheet: since they never play a piece...
...CENTURY Holland was a land of blood, sweat and beers. It fought long and fiercely to win complete independence from Spain; it amassed huge wealth by energetic trading at home and around the world, and like the U.S. today it developed a dominant middle class with a uniquely high standard of living. Unlike middlebrow Americans, the Dutch in their golden age prized paintings highly enough to buy them. In some towns, professional painters outnumbered the butchers. Perhaps a score of the artists achieved greatness; the works of a handful rivaled and vastly enriched the art of the ages...
Utilities and building materials continued their climb. Owens-Corning Fiberglas profits rode the building boom up a whopping 53.6%, to $2,293,257. Standard Oil of California boosted 1953's third-quarter profits by 4.2%, to $50,876,733, and tacked an extra 75? onto its regular 75? quarterly dividend. But Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) eased off 11.5%, to $145 million...
...dislikes. G.M.'s traveling Motorama provides another fine source of information, with interviewers stationed by every experimental car. The results are all carefully tabulated, passed along to styling and engineering and to President Curtice, who studies them carefully. The surveys are important, e.g., pushbutton doors were made standard equipment when the research department found that 70% of the people interviewed preferred them to handle doors. But surveys would be worthless without a sure styling instinct. Last year Harlow Curtice looked over the roomful of experimental cars, picked the experimental Pontiac and Chewy station wagon as the cars the public...
REALITIES OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, by George F. Kennan (Princeton; $2.75), disagrees with Stevenson on the question of humility: "There is no use blinking the fact that we are a great nation." But Kennan, too, is worried that the U.S. may become too agitated, may attempt to force its standard of morality on the rest of the world, may abuse its power and responsibility. His recommendation: "If we all sit quietly in our little boat and address ourselves to the process of navigation, I doubt that it will tip over...