Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eskimos take creativity for granted and find it hard to fathom why anyone would want to collect something another person has made. In a land where a man can be killed by a glass of water thrown in his face (it freezes in flight), and where the main supply of food comes from the hunt, the Eskimo has developed an uncanny sense of observation. He can mimic a stranger on sight, often fools seals by flapping his arms like flippers until he is near enough to throw a harpoon. In his art, he can catch the look of the injured...
Ballet at La Scala was for years behind the rest of the world, with choreography and staging sometimes below the level of New York's Radio City Music Hall. But Choreographer Leonide Massine's appealing work demonstrated that La Scala is trying hard to catch up. The ballet opened against a backdrop of black-and-white hotel exteriors reminiscent of Ludwig Bemelmans drawings; the story then moved to nightclub, courtroom and prison as it told of a girl who is wooed by a gangster, framed in a gangland shooting, sentenced to death, but liberated by a previous lover...
Other builders, notably William Zeckendorf, have seen the dream of a Grand Central City vanish before the hard realities of finance, but Wolfson neatly turned the trick. He already has all the capital needed to start building: $25 million from City Centre Properties, Ltd., one of Britain's largest real estate organizations. On May 1, Wolfson's Diesel Construction Co. will begin demolishing the six-story building that stands on the site...
...commercial airlines, with a big assist from Oklahoma's Democratic Senator A. S. ("Mike") Monroney, last week won their long battle to force the Military Air Transport Service to stop competing for passengers and cargo. In the future, MATS will function only as a "hard core" carrier transporting troops, weapons and missiles for the armed forces. This policy shift will force MATS to surrender the bulk of its military and VIP Government passenger and freight business to the private airlines, which will amount to an estimated $100 million a year...
Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism. The central figure is dying of cancer; his final months lead through the discovery of goodness to one of the crudest pieces of sustained misanthropy the screen has ever shown...