Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes both managers' and workers' incomes heavily dependent upon profit and, in consequence, on the level of sales. This has spurred a flurry of interest in the consumer's tastes and purchasing power and even an official campaign to introduce radio commercials and improve product packaging, window displays, neon lighting, and other once-deprecated Western advertising techniques...
...German city of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, last week banners proclaiming SOCIALISM WILL CONQUER THE WHOLE WORLD overhung the main streets. At kiosks, vendors peddled a new kind of Kewpie doll - portly and dressed in the brown robes of an Augustinian monk. In one shop window, portraits of Luther and Lenin glared at each other across the open pages of an ancient Bible. Thus was the 450th anniversary of the Reformation celebrated in the midst of a "democratic socialist" republic...
Nonetheless, many of the minor works are high-voltage pictures in themselves. A savage chop of cross-hatching and rapid brush strokes give Van Gogh's watercolor foliage as much urgency as one done in a heavy oil impasto; the extravagantly translucent turquoise shadows of his barred window at the Saint-Remy asylum emphasize the manic oppressiveness of the room's yellow walls...
...Wheels. Most such churches begin by taking over a drive-in theater on Sunday morning. Minister, choir and organ perch atop the projection booth or a makeshift stage, and the sermon is piped into cars through window speakers. Among the most impressive of several new churches specially built for drive-in congregations are Schuller's Garden Grove Community Church (designed by Richard Neutra) and the glass-walled Trinity Reformed Church in Kent, Wash., which will accommodate up to 300 people in cars parked outside. Both Garden Grove and Trinity Reformed also serve worshipers seated in the nave...
...then to Harvard. He taught at Ann Arbor. He recites Yeats. He led a movement to abolish ROTC as a student. He is well-to-do. He has a computer-brain. He is cool and aloof. Robert Strange McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, was looking out of the window of his Pentagon office, watching the confrontation below last Saturday. Maybe he was wondering what his liberal brain was thinking...