Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Unlike many logical-minded men, who can pierce to the point but often miss the surrounding nuances, Dean Rusk has an eye for the complexity of things, rejects the notion that diplomacy is simple applied common sense. "A respect for complexity is the beginning of wisdom," he says. He puts little faith in trying to cope with the complexities of foreign relations with either dramatic new policies or coups of face-to-face negotiation. A policy, he says, is "a galaxy of utterly complicated factors," not something that suddenly pops out of somebody's head. As for face...
...asymmetrical, aspiring structures of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose intention, in churches like Redding, Calif.'s soon-to-be-built Pilgrim Congregational Church, was to create a wholly new and American architecture. Today the right to use materials naturally and unadorned (as Wright would have them) has become common, accepted practice-seems indeed to have a special churchly appeal because of its ring of honesty. Architect Ralph Rapson boldly built St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Edina, Minn, in exposed steel and concrete, sheathing the exterior with aluminum. California Architect Mario Corbett designed his expressive Hope Lutheran Church...
PORTRAIT OF MAX, by S. N. Behrman. British Perfectionist Max Beerbohm, novelist, drama critic, cheerfully malicious caricaturist, let the 20th century wash past him during more than four decades of retirement in Italy. Edwardian dandy to the end, coolly satisfied with his own limitations and common-sensibly appalled by people who did not recognize theirs, he delighted in civilized talk of the kind that Playwright Behrman expertly caught...
...from leading universities discussed many common problems, but they were primarily concerned with developing methods of exchanging materials and publications with each other. "Co-operation among these countries since World War II has not been extremely successful," Reischauer observed...
...invest about $1.25 billion abroad v. $1.2 billion in 1959 and $1.1 billion in 1958. Altogether, U.S. private investment abroad amounts to about $30 billion, 50% more than U.S. Government investment abroad. While the pace of foreign investments has been stepped up by a scramble to get into the Common Market area before the tariff walls go up, it is based more solidly on worldwide economic growth. Says Basil James, the American sales director of British Aluminium, which is 49% owned by Reynolds aluminum: "American business has become aware that the fastest-growing markets may be outside...