Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cities on Stilts. It was a dictum much misunderstood. Le Corbusier loved the machine not for its function but for its economy of form. He preferred American grain elevators to Gothic cathedrals, but only because they were trim manifestations of a man-made world long removed from the saintly preoccupations of the medieval age. He ridiculed the beaux-arts esthetic that caused designers to disguise railway stations as Roman temples and believed that art nouveau's attempt to doll up houses with plantlike curlicues was a sham...
...JOBS: The doubling of draft calls, to 35,000 a month, will trim unemployment in the under-20 age group where the rate is a high 16% (v. 4.4% for the labor force as a whole...
Tory backbenchers, spoiling for a fight, wanted to press this advantage, but Sir Alec replied that Wilson deserved a chance to govern-and that a partisan time-out was in the nation's best interests. He used the hiatus to reorganize the Tories into fighting trim, resolved to do away with the traditional Tory way of choosing its leaders by the "customary processes"-that is, by informal agreement of the few ranking leaders. Home's successor will be chosen this week by democratic election in which all 303 Tory M.P.s will have equal votes...
...MONSTROUS, MENACING MAN-EATERS MIRACULOUSLY MINGLED, the signs used to say. That was in the '30s, when "circus" was a word with magic, when kids impatiently waited through the year until the big tent went up again. And what they waited for most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon...
Apoplectic Purple. Gaullists privately insisted that France had no intention of pulling out of or breaking up the Common Market. What Paris does want is to reshape the EEC's structure. Above all, De Gaulle wants to trim the wings of the Eurocrats, stop what one French official angrily described as the "supranational escalation in the commission's daily method of action." A rarely aroused Hallstein retorted in a speech at Düsseldorf that, if De Gaulle throttled the Common Market's drive toward unity, "this would be the greatest destructive act in the history...