Word: pyramids
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...more of all the consumer goods that are epitomized by the catch-phrase "tail-fins," emphatically no. As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in The Liberal Hour, "There is no assurance merely from expanding output per se that the benefit will accrue to those at the bottom of the pyramid who need the goods the most." Kennedy's call for growth for growth's sake, or merely to out produce the Russians, is, for some, another grave weakness in his campaign...
...There is no assurance merely from expanding output per se that the benefit will accrue to those at the bottom of the pyramid who need the goods the most...
...powerless to stop the conquering hordes of Libyans, Ethiopians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, who swept into the Nile Valley like a rampaging flood. But foreign domination for a time pumped new vigor into Egypt's tired blood. Sculptors gradually began to escape from the sterility of pyramid sculpture and, subjected to freshening outside influences, introduced a new vitality and plasticity into their own work that suggested the classical sculpture of their Greek conquerors. This week the Brooklyn Museum is gathering 141 pieces of this hybrid Late Period (700 B.C. to 100 A.D.) work, assembled from 55 public...
...pajamas is Kirk Douglas, and the suburban woman more or less next door is Kim Novak. He meets her in a supermarket, and his love, at first sight, is framed against a pyramid of oranges. She is fresh and not too seedy, but at home no one is squeezing her. She even leaves her blouse open to attract her husband when he returns from work, but the husband's reaction is: "Why don't you get dressed?" Any man who says that to Kim Novak isn't even a slob...
...pyramid-topped oratory, the church and its curvilinear chapel (which Corbusier calls "the rock" and the monks, despite his protests, call "the ear"), there are no statues. "There will be no distraction from images," Corbu told the monks. "If you want to be good fellows and show some friendship for your poor devil of an architect, you can do it by formally refusing every gift of stained glass, or images, or statues, which kill everything...