Word: typing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spot at which the ground was broken marked the probable center of a circular tunnel 236 feet in diameter which will house the major part of the accelerator, to be the largest of its type in the world on its completion early...
...wish you had added to the stature of your report the obvious need for adequate, authorized, qualified schooling in our high schools to train service people. I think it is a crying shame that some of our schools today continue to teach our youngsters such outmoded activities as setting type by hand, for instance, when there is such a desperate need for trained people in the mechanized, automated, electronic world...
...free air, rising skyscrapers, parks, bridges and elevated highways. At 68, running for a fourth term, crusty, cold-eyed Dave Lawrence is one of the last of the old city bosses. At the same time he is the dean of a new breed which realizes that a successful 1957-type politician must deal out as much progress as patronage if he wants to be reelected...
Tours. The virtuosos, the prima donnas, the chamber-music ensembles and practically any other type of musical group worth mentioning packed their bags for tours to big cities and small towns. There was scarcely a well-known musician or musical group, American or European, that was not set to take off across the land. They could be ticked off right down the alphabet from A to Z (with the exception of X, since Greek Pianist Anna Xydis is not touring the U.S. this season): Contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa...
...completely linear approach. The Orpheus and Eurydice series seeks sculptural monumentality through the use of freer, more flexible line than is commonly found in woodcuts. Paradoxically, the "freer" the line attempts to become, the more it appears as the slave of an unconquered medium. Caught between an oddly Germanic type of flowing grace and a more indigenous forcefulness of expression, the product is unresolved. At times, especially in the matter of such problems as the portrayal of facial expressions, Marcks' drawing becomes trivial, often being nothing short of silly. Ironically enough, this brings to mind Maillol's observation that "grimaces...