Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...negotiators tossed in a sugar plum: the offer of an automatic increase of 4? an hour each year for the next five years. The cost-of-living clause (which now gives U.A.W. workers an extra 3? an hour) will be continued, but will not drop below the new basic wage...
Bergsma's first full-sized symphony. In the program notes, he set about describing it in unabashed terms: "It is not a neoclassic work; the March is not that of Sousa, nor the Aria that of Bach . . . What the symphony is must be heard in the music. My basic aim was a direct, varied and purposeful musical expression. That is, of course, the aim of every honest composer...
...state laws are based on the concepts of the Christian religion." So spoke New Mexico's Attorney General Joe L. Martinez in arguing before the state supreme court that Lindrith High School pupils could legally say the Lord's Prayer in their classrooms and study "basic, non- denominational Christian concepts." Last week came a ringing war whoop from Indian-loving Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge in the Santa Fe New Mexican...
...Roosevelt in Retrospect, Gunther has brought these talents to bear on the complex personality of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In spite of his avowed aim of getting at his subject's "root qualities and basic sources of power," Gunther has conspicuously failed to "pin something of his great substance against the wall of time." Getting inside a man is something quite different from getting into a continent or a country; it takes more than visas. What Gunther has achieved is a lively journalistic profile pieced together with materials largely lifted from the mushrooming literature on F.D.R. and loosely held together...
Since O'Keefe's basic staff of ten can be quickly and efficiently expanded, almost nothing on Ford Theater (alternate Fridays, 9 p.m. E.D.T., CBS-TV) is left to chance. Nobody gets lost in what O'Keefe calls "the departmentalization of a network which has to service all network shows...