Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drop 20 miles. He thinks the best place for a trial run would be one of the rock salt domes that poke to the surface along the Gulf of Mexico shore; the needle reactor should bubble through them as carelessly as a skindiver. Later models can tackle the sterner granite and basalt that form most of the rest of the earth's crust...
...needed sterner stuff-and recalled his days in the foundry. Joining the art faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, Voulkos and two fellow teachers organized a foundry on the junk-strewn east shore of San Francisco Bay. There he now works with huge wax blobs, which he melts and presses into thin sheets. He shapes the sheets into curvilinear planes, joins them into tormented, zigzagging giant winged forms, finally casts them in bronze and welds them into thrusting, soaring pieces of sculpture...
...addition to these expectables, the reader will find scattered throughout the magazine, a kind of story which, under a sterner and narrower definition, was once not considered "news," though obviously of high interest (as we can judge by the letters we get). These are what might be called the trend stories, and they are most evident in such a section as Modern Living, which in the words of Senior Editor A. T. Baker is more concerned with "the general flow of society than with murders and elections...
Various New Frontiersmen, including Chester Bowles and David Bell, have also argued for sterner selectivity in the distribution of aid funds. Says Bell, the Administration's new foreign aid boss: "It would be a mistake for the U.S. to try to engage in anything like a worldwide welfare program. What we are trying to do is assist the people of these countries to get in the position where they can solve their own problems." Last month President Kennedy's special Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, headed by retired General Lucius D. Clay, produced...
...Englanders, the exiled yearners who can look at a plain wooden barn in a rocky Vermont field and see the Parthenon. It is customary to photograph New England in color (all those leaves), but the author's choice is black and white, and it is the better, sterner...