Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many intellectuals obviously must be involved in government. It is not enough to argue that such work risks intellectual compromise. Of course it does, but the greater risk is a government without intellectuals. Who wants, for example, a CIA run entirely by soldiers and policemen? In 1965 Robert Wood, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, considered the problem that such involvement means for intellectuals: "Given the uncertainties of actual influence possessed, its effectiveness and appropriateness, and the welter of motivations that compel the intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented...
...gallery. It was Constable's moral feeling for the countryside of England, outgoing Gallery Director John Walker points out in the catalogue, that is his principal achievement. "More than any other artist, he was able to embody in paint Wordsworth's 'Impulse from a Vernal Wood,' " Walker writes. "He remains among artists the high priest of pantheism, the primate of a new religion of natural beauty...
...McDonnell Douglas' earnings climbed 157%, partly because the company got its troubled Douglas commercial-aircraft division under control. At Union Carbide, profits jumped 28% on a sales increase of only 8%, partly because of a drive to cut costs and increase production at existing facilities. Runaway prices for wood products lifted profits more than 60% for Weyerhauser and Georgia-Pacific...
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Billy Wood. His family, which lived in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., was well off but not royally so. His cousin, though, was a real prince - Frederick Henry Prince. He reigned over a mighty empire called Armour, which had grown rich from slaughtering and selling fattened beasts...
...Desolation Row. The brown wood panelling, the dirty floor, the floor is wet--how'd it get wet?--the glowing red coils of the hotplate, the gray throb of he lightbulb. The world is a bus terminal. Who makes it out to Desolation Row? Well, for a starter...