Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...some direction that seems to be forward. His idea that any major project should be carried out by universities in their local areas is sound; something like the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students' project at Junior High School 43 in Harlem should be the rough model for what the universities can do with local schools. The idea is to introduce promising poor kids to higher learning, give them some kind of motivation, and then provide a chance for them to go to a college...
There are two self-portraits in the exhibit from 1914, one of the painter as Saint Sebastian (typical of Schiele's persecution complex), and the other an oil in which Schiele appears with deep-set eyes and a wan, bony countenance. As Death, he reaches out towards his model who shrinks away into the somber, slightly cubist background...
...agents in reckoning tax write-off allowances (Bulletin F) was last revised in 1942. It is geared to the patch-and-retread psychology of the Depression and the war, takes little account of the rapid pace of technology in which a machine may be made obsolete by a better model a year after it is installed. In the iron and steel industry, the life of machinery is an average 25 years. On the straight-line basis of tax deductions applying to all pre-1954 purchased equipment, such machinery can be written off at the rate of only 4% a year...
When De Gaulle's government took over in France and cast about for ways to restore French economic grandeur, one of its major moves was to model its depreciation allowances after the Germans. For new equipment with a life of three years, a French firm is allowed 50% first-year tax write-off, and for equipment to be depreciated over ten years or longer, it can write off no less than 25%. The idea, French experts happily note, almost compels industry to re-equip and modernize itself rapidly. Sweden for a time allowed 100% first-year write-offs...
...Sticks. The Trial Begins is classed as "socialist surrealism'' by the editors of Encounter, where it first appeared in English last January. The label is just. Part of the complex plot is focused on Marina, a Bolshy bitch who is married to Globov, a public prosecutor, and model of Soviet Russia's successful man; she is also probably the mistress of Karlinsky, the philosophizing public defender. Marina procures an abortion for no reason except that motherhood might spoil her figure. Mad with rage when his wife brutally tells him of this, Globov smashes everything in their apartment...