Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first book was a monumental failure, and of it Yevtushenko writes: "Who could care about my pretty rhymes and striking images if they were nothing but curlicues decorating a vacuum?" So he turned outward, and began to become aware of "the beautiful ... world of real people." At the same time, the young Yevtushenko was deeply imbued with "the romantic ideals of the workers and soldiers who stormed the Winter Palace in 1917," and looked upon the world "with a revolutionary's scornful gaze...
...politics seems as sane and stolid as a Rembrandt burgher - and most of the time it is. Every few years, however, The Netherlands is gripped by a Cabinet crisis that leaves the country rudderless for even longer than customary in Italy or pre-Gaullist France. In 1956 the governmental vacuum lasted for 122 days, while the old Cabinet carried on as caretaker. By last week, when Queen Juliana flew back from an Italian vacation to swear in new Prime Minister Victor Marijnen, the government had taken Dutch leave for 70 days...
...yearly (v. only 30,000 ten years ago), enabling Italy to edge out West Germany as Europe's leading producer. Washing-machine sales are rising so fast that they are catching up with refrigerators, and stores can hardly keep in stock any labor-saving appliance, from a vacuum cleaner to a floor polisher...
...were not about to protest when Ford forbade all conversations between workers in the factory, or when labor organizers were methodically kneed, blackjacked and even shot by Bennett-paid Detroit gangsters. Old Henry stood above and away from it all, refusing to believe that such abuses existed. In this vacuum of leadership, corporate cliques vied for Ford's erratic scepter. "The sinister Bennett" was pitted against the "dynamically ruthless" production chief Charles Sorensen; the "public-spirited...
...Department has become one of the largest, richest, and most influential at Harvard. It has been vigorously criticized by persons in other fields, has harbored some of the most controversial research at the University, and through the past 17 years has remained an anomaly--something like a perfect vacuum. All the trends not only in modern education but also at Harvard have been toward increased specialization; Social Relations declared itself interdisciplinary and unspecialized from the start, and though in 1963 it isn't what it used to be, it has held out against extraordinary pressures toward fragmentation...