Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...annual run in the Public Gardens, was the center of more than the usual controversy. As in previous years, the main subject of contention was the exhibit of paintings. Last year, the Festival's painting exhibition was wholly invitational; in rebellion, a group of painters banded together to set up nearby a vying exhibit of their own. This year, the Festival reverted to a policy of holding an open competition; and it instructed the all-artist selection juries "to seek out artistic essence in whatever form or garb it may appear...
...Albany train yards, and the completion of its project will make it hard to say who has the right side. Hopefully, the project will redeem much of the confusion around Huntington Avenue at the same time. The long stretch between Huntington and the Fenway houses as dreary a set of structures as you are likely to see outside East Berlin...
...consumers in the market for "white goods" (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.), the bargains last week were the best in many a moon. Hotpoint was so eager to unload that it had set up carnival-like displays around the nation, was giving away cokes, ice cream and balloons to kids who brought their mothers to the fair (next week, the kids can trade their mothers for space helmets). Whirlpool has cut distributor prices 6% on some refrigerator models. General Electric has stripped trim off other models to sell them as cheaper "economy specials." The industry was hustling as quickly...
Clean House. The man who is trying to fill the gap is Norman Smith, 61, longtime labor organizer who helped in the tough job of unionizing the auto industry. Covering 50,000 miles in twelve months as he motored up and down the valley, Smith set up leadership-training classes in seven towns, gradually enlisted a hard core of unionists. Then he got a big break from an unexpected quarter: a wealthy Republican rancher named Fred Van Dyke. While running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1958, Van Dyke was shocked by what he found out about the life of the farm...
...trouble is that Author Brown, noted for a good World War II novel, A Walk in the Sun, seems to have lost faith in his audience. Lest the reader miss the parallels, he tells his tale in the pidgin poetry of the conventional translator. What he has set out to do, says the author, is tell of "a yellow Sunday in the last days of a good spring, while . . . pale threads, drawn out from dark hidden places, began to be wound inexorably together . . . until there had been wrought, out of such tenuous white and fleeting things, a taut tripwire...