Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another wave of turbulence in the Siberian industrial center of Kemerovo was reported last week by the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya. More than 47,000 construction workers walked off the job during the first six months of the year because of low wages, poor housing and food shortages. Economic planning in the region was a joke. Equipment for a steel mill delivered in 1954 was still waiting to be installed. A fruit cannery was finished before it dawned on its builders that there was no local fruit to can. All in all, $660 million went down the drain...
...time he was 25. he had written the most successful novel in Europe's history. The Sorrows of Werther, and his suicidal young hero set off an emulatory wave of youthful self-destruction from...
Government spending will be stepped up in the hard-hit unemployment areas, such as northeast England and Scotland. New roads, factories and towns will be built to prepare for "the next wave of industrial expansion." Building, one of Britain's most inefficient industries, will be overhauled by coordinating government construction, streamlining techniques and archaic codes. Public building, which accounts for nearly half of Britain's national investment program, will be accelerated, while lagging slum clearance and new housing construction will be speeded...
Virginia-born Sam Kootz, who now has Hans Hofmann, was also an early champion of nonobjective art. A onetime lawyer and then adman, he was writing about American art as far back as 1930, became convinced that the wave of the future in art lay in the U.S. and that the U.S. should start paying attention. And so, in 1945 he signed up Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes, packed them off to Florida to paint. Later, Adolph Gottlieb and Sculptor David Hare joined the list. Kootz refused to take Pollock, and when he began adding such foreign names as Soulages...
...John Hultberg, Paul Jenkins and the Spaniard Tapies, she has turned her gallery over to "happenings" and "environments," once even allowed her entire backyard to be filled with tires in the name of art. She could well be called the bridge between the established abstractionists and the new wave that the Castelli Gallery and later the Green, Stone and Stable galleries have encouraged...