Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ornate, five-story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines (for its Mainliner interiors), Packard, the Chicago Tribune (for "being inspirational to students of design...
Weinberg volunteered to help Wilson out for only 90 days, but he stayed on an extra 2½ months at Wilson's request. During that time, he helped staff the mobilization program with such top men as Clay Bedford, boss of the Kaiser shipyards during the war; Harvard Professor William Yandell Elliott, a raw materials expert; and George Harrison, president of A.F.L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Last week the body snatcher finally decided his job was done. He stopped in to see his boss and old friend, regretfully said goodbye, and headed back to his senior partnership...
...Smail's review of the Advocate in Tuesday's issue of the CRIMSON. It seems the smug Mr. Smail sees the reviewer Mr. Kaiser as too virtuosic to have much value in his criticism; he challenges Mr. Kaiser's right to use the phrase "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which "makes a mockery of the English language." He recommends that Mr. Kaiser get a good dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage." As it turns out it would seem that Ezra Pound, about whom the review was written, is the one who needs Fowler. (P.S. I am sure...
...present a different problem: Advocate reviewers, it seems, are all boy-geniuses who have read (at the age of twenty, say) at least as much as Mr. Eliot has and are even more eager than he to demonstrate their erudition. The reviews in this issue, especially one by Walter Kaiser '54, are too virtuosic to have much value as criticism, though I'm sure that all three of the reviewers are indeed talented and widely-read. Mr. Kaiser is a writer of some force and his criticism appears to be sound but he needs a dose of Fowler's "Modern...
...Panamanian, hell," someone answered. "Henry Kaiser built that...