Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MILLION STOCKHOLDERS in U.S. businesses are predicted for 1970 by J. Wilson Newman, president of Dun & Bradstreet, compared to 12.5 million stockholders at present...
...another strike even if workers want to accept the offer. If no settlement is reached, the Taft-Hartley injunction will be dissolved shortly after the vote. The Government will have no way of preventing a new strike, since the President has exhausted the measures he can take under the present law. Federal Mediator Joseph Finnegan called union and management together again at week's end, called the talks "constructive...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...
None of this is dazzlingly new; Kafka clearly is a grandfather of the movement, and Sartre and Camus are at least unacknowledged uncles. New Realism's most important idea is to show life scrubbed clean of theatricality, and in the novel's present period of torpor, the Paris insurrection cannot be ignored. Among the latest New Realism imports...
...number of rows in each field, how many trees stand in each row. Such writing is not merely capricious; the looming fact of the plantation's physical existence is established-for whatever readers remain. Lost among the bananas and a time sequence that flickers eerily through past, present and future is a murder. It is dealt with in half a paragraph...