Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million City Hall was designed in 1962, it has been the focus of controversy. Most architecture critics consider it one of the great buildings of the 1960s, a richly textured, concrete-and-brick structure that reflects the influence of the late architect Le Corbusier and, in its emphatic use of raw concrete, of the contemporary English "Brutalists" as well. But to most citizens, it looked too for-tresslike for comfort...
Humble Form. Given this predilection, it was only natural that Munch should ultimately turn to the simplest, most stylized artistic medium then in use -graphics. In the 1890s, lithographs were undergoing an artistic revival in Paris under the gifted impetus of Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec, while Gauguin was experimenting with the woodcut. Munch, in his turn, became almost as influential as they...
...DROP THE BOMB ON LUXEMBOURG. Use different tactics for fights over everyday annoyances and for those involving major grievances...
Charged with responsibility for devel oping long-range policy positions, he must daily consider such weighty issues as the effects of using the oceans for disposal of wastes, the need for international agreements to halt despoiling of the environment, and the possibility of large-scale re-use of waste water. Despite such earthly responsibilities, Singer, who is a physicist by training, also finds time to promote ideas that are truly out of this world...
...money, steep interest rates and restraint on Government spending, the most direct way to fight inflation without increasing unemployment would be outright federal controls on wages and prices. Paul A. Samuelson of M.I.T., a liberal economist, says that controls should be "saved for emergencies"; most officials shudder at their use under any. circumstances. In a letter to the Washington Post last week, Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith argued for revival of the Johnson Administration's voluntary wage-price guideposts, "or something similar." Yet, as Johnson learned, such guideposts can be flouted so often that they become meaningless...