Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign investment, the government is slowly forcing out firms already in business. Most planters (tea, rubber) say they are not even bothering to replant. General Motors closed its assembly plant at Tandjong Priok a few weeks ago after 27 years of operation. Philco Radio and Britain's vast Imperial Chemical Industries are expected to follow quite soon. At Tandjong Priok, the capital's seaport, costly prefabricated school buildings are rusting on wharves because someone has forgotten them; at Bandung, in West Java, a $45 million munitions factory sits unassembled because the officials who imported it forgot also...
Harvard should not abandon the junior year program merely because of Sweet briar's ineffectiveness. Instead, it should set up a program of its own--not a vast system of advisers and special libraries, but a small-scale plan enabling highly qualified students to study abroad on their own. Detailed Harvard examinations on return would provide more of a check than Sweet briar's regulations, which treat all juniors as juveniles...
Even more impressive than Moscow's skyscrapers is the vast edifice of phony literature which Stalin built around his life and works. When a novel or a play served his propaganda purposes, he boosted its sales to millions, made ruble millionaires out of his authors. A writer who had been critical, however, or one who merely failed to pay homage to the dictator, was. denied print, frequently banished to prison camp, sometimes executed. In walking the intellectual tightrope between these extremes, no Soviet writer has been more adroit than Ilya Ehrenburg...
Webb dated her twice a week for two months, recalls: "I detested every minute of it." But he got her story-for nothing. Last fall he scored another clear triumph by persuading Gangster Billy Hill, undisputed boss of London's vast underworld, to let him ghost Hill's life story ("I am the gangster who runs the underworld"). Shortly after, Gangster Hill vanished from the sight of London police, who want to talk to him about a $100,000 gold robbery...
Noguchi and Asawa share one quality of Oriental art that Western artists often lack: economy of means. Their Japanese ancestors devoted vast efforts to making a single brush stroke look easy. By confining themselves to simple shapes made of patted mud and woven wire respectively, Noguchi and Asawa also achieved a pleasing quality of ease and oneness with their work. Judged by one standard test of art, i.e., the proportion of visible effort to effect, their sculptures stand high...