Word: tinkering
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...associate with a somewhat bizarre though terribly shoe group. One of her close friends "went to Dylan Thomas' funeral in tight black silk, veiled, and jet earringed, weeping because she never met him." Another grew trees in her room. (A Harvard acquaintance built a fine rampant peacock out of tinker toys as a woman-substitute.) She and her friends "detested" normal girls who wore cardigan sweaters and could discuss sex calmly...
...that Miss Russell would categorize as "English--pleasant, pure, and utterly sexless." The stock part of the yearning tenor Gilbert has split into two roles, a comic duke and a second poet--this one Swinburne. (One of the chief technical flaws of Patience is W.S.G.'s halfhearted attempts to tinker with a successful and standard formula; the only result is a fragmentation of the familiar.) As the duke, Stephen A. Barre has a few good gestures and not much of a voice. The voice of the "Idyllic Poet" (John Edwards) is capricious, but his performance of an essentially stolid part...
...blue band around the curve of the earth. Eventually, perhaps 10, 100, or 1,000 years from now, a great spaceship will carry men far out in the solar system. They will learn whether the moon and the planets have value as real estate. They may tinker with the offensive atmosphere of Venus, perhaps making it suitable for human breathing. They may develop human subtypes that will enjoy Venus as it is. They may learn to live in space itself, cruising the solar system in artificial, mobile planets. Human civilization is only 7,000 years old, and countless years...
...drilling nuclear-missile launching sites deep into the earth makes construction of the pyramids look like a Tinker Toy exercise. Yet despite such everyday troubles as strikes and material shortages, the work on the 207 ICBM silos now under construction...
...lumping his minimum-wage proposals in with his anti-recessionary measures, Kennedy gave critics a ready argument. They contended, with reason, that a recession is the worst time to tinker with wages: "You've already got unemployment and depressed areas -why make both worse?" Says University of Chicago Economist Yale Brozen: "Every time the minimum wage has been increased, unemployment of the unskilled, those covered by the increase, has increased.'' Brozen cites a study of Florida counties after the 1956 boost. For the twelve months of that year, employment in counties paying low wages dropped...