Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There, amid the grey agate wasteland of the stock tables, dwells one of journalism's newest specialists, the advertising columnist. He stalks a beat so narrow and unnewsworthy that most papers prefer to do without him entirely. Of the handful of such men regularly kept at work in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco and Detroit, only five get a daily airing. And four of these-Bart of the Times, Kaselow of the Tribune, Charles Sievert of the World-Telegram and Jack O'Dwyer of the Journal-American-appear in New York City,*where the Madison Avenue...
Harvard Square can be either a wasteland or a garden of Eden for those in search of fashion. Those who decide what to put out on the shelves for sale maintain they couldn't care less what Paris decrees, and a continuity prevails here from season to season. Nevertheless, this year as usual there are subtle changes. A recent looking spree corroborated this. It also confirmed the suspicion that the Square stocks much of the same trite, conservative clothing available everywhere, (though at prices often higher than any other place...
...specter of Yale's IBM wasteland was raised earlier this year by rumors about the Elder Committee's report. After six months of study, the Committee recommended sweeping changes in the method of assigning freshmen to the Houses. Despite the reluctance of Faculty members to discuss the exact proposals, the rumors were, distressingly, not far wrong...
...might as well be on relief. But the shape of the place and the nature of its glamour have changed since the golden years, when Hollywood's pioneer stars came to the five-square-mile tract of beanfields, carved castles out of the surrounding canyons, and turned a wasteland into myth, when...
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander, is a cynical, funny, abrasive comedy about the frauds who cultivate the TV wasteland for the cash crop. As the biggest phony of them all, Robert Preston is full of roguish charm and as magnetic...