Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Businessmen and workers who make pottery, window glass, carpets, hats, bicycles, and many other kinds of goods still argue for tariffs ,to protect themselves against competition from abroad, but they no longer argue for tariffs in general. And their tone has changed: in hearings before the Ways and Means Committee this year, they sounded rather plaintive and apologetic. Many pleaders for particular protection even felt constrained to tell the committee that in principle they favored freer trade and agreed with the purposes of the bill...
Raids & Whoops. The Olive and Boyle quarter began to spruce up; even the antique-and-junk dealers caught the spirit, began upgrading their wares and window displays. St. Louis was in the process of demolishing 465 acres of downtown property for redevelopment, and the intrepid Gaslighters staged foraging raids behind wrecking crews, picking up church pews, chandeliers and marble bathtubs. With their truckloads of artifacts, they transformed the old buildings into a gingerbread plaisance calculated to bring a tear of delight to the eye of St. Louisans yearning for the good old days, a whoop of joy to younger citizens...
...painting household objects-trash cans, washing machines, light cords-in the same flat technique. "I try to use what is a cliche -a powerful cliché-and put it into organized form," he says. By presenting common things, familiar to commercial art, in a different context, Lichtenstein, a onetime window-dresser, argues that he is creating something new. "It brings up the question 'What is art?' " says...
...books of verse include "The Cr "Bay Window Ballads," and "Odd Without End." A new volume of poems for children. "Take Sky," will published next fall. His anthology British and American humerous called "What Cheer" has been called best such collection over printed...
...abstract association . . . an anxiety response." At the schizophrenic end of the scale the psychologist puts: "A woman's behind-pregnant, flying, you know." Most subjects agree with Holtzman: this blot reminds them of an enraged executive listening to two telephones. The response "Mud smeared on a church window" is moderately but definitely neurotic, says Holtzman, because it "shows strong hostility toward conventional authority." More nearly psychotic, because it suggests primitive appetites, is: "A throat with many throats inside...