Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harder to defend. The nine nations of the European Community, which, ironically, was founded precisely to free trade among its members, have put up barrier after barrier against foreign goods. In the U.S. two actions within the past fortnight have dramatized the growing clamor for restrictions against imports of steel, textiles, shoes, TV sets and dozens of other items. At the end of September, Zenith Radio Corp., the largest U.S. maker of TV sets, announced that it would lay off 5,600 American employees within the next year, because of competition from imports, and transfer much of its color...
...Treasury's action increased pressure for more severe restrictions on imports. That pressure is now coming from some former free traders, notably Democratic Representative Charles Vanik of Ohio. Last week Vanik called on President Carter to limit steel imports to 18% of the U.S. market (v. present imports of around 20%). He warned that if Carter does not, Congress might legislate a wide-ranging protectionist program next year. Said Vanik: "When you consider that about one-third of the House members are isolationist to start with, and you add onto that the 40 members who are concerned about textile...
...most comprehensive of them, from constructivism to concrete art, is housed in Berlin's New National Gallery -the austere and nearly functionless square of glass and black steel that was Mies van der Rohe's chief legacy to Germany. This Prussian pantheon, overlooking the bombed-out paddocks where Hitler's chancellery once stood, is as perfectly suited to a constructivist show as St. Peter's is to Bernini's papal tombs; box and contents are one. The idealism, the formal absolutism and the faith in a new social order, coupled with the abstracted indifference...
...surface; instead rf the knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene is an obsessive theme of constructivism: a design like J J Pieter Oud's Cafe Restaurant De Unie, 1925, is not to be imagined with a scintilla of city grime on it. Steel, chrome, tile, gloss paint were the rudiments of utopia, but, above all, glass. Paeans were written to the constructivist cathedral, the transparent tower. "Life is a burden without a glass palace," rhapsodized the poet and designer Paul Scheerbart...
...down the names of all the folks who helped to raise me, it would read like a roster of Negro Princeton... Hard-working people, and poor, most of them, in worldly goods--but how rich in compassion! How filled with the goodness of humanity and the spiritual steel forged by centuries of oppression!... Here in this little hemmed-in world where home must be theatre and concert hall and social center, there was a warmth of song. Songs of love and longing, songs of trials and triumphs, deep-flowing rivers and rollicking brooks, hymn-songs and ragtime ballads, gospels...