Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Union of Writers of the U.S.S.R. since 1959, have written a number of works in which I have tried to be guided by the principles of "Socialist Realism." But with every work I have written, conditions have become more restricted and difficult. After long reflection and much practical experience, I have come to realize the utter falsity, stupidity and reactionary nature of "Socialist Realism...
...coordinated blasts may have been the work of members of the right-wing National Resistance Movement. Like many other Greeks, they are angered by the U.S.'s continued tolerance of the military regime in Athens. The group later scattered leaflets signed by a "General Akritas," addressed to "Americans, diplomats and doublecrossers." The pamphlets warned that "the reprisals we shall inflict from now on will no longer be explosions but kidnapings and perhaps executions...
...Jacqueline Bisset was not eager to belt a 68-year-old grandmother in the face, but the old woman was not one bit impressed by her deferential pat on the cheek. "You'll have to hit me harder than that, dear, if the scene's going to work." So Helen Hayes took a good smash from Miss Bisset-and the scene worked. Back in Hollywood, after a 13-year absence, for the filming of Arthur Hailey's bestseller Airport, the great lady of the stage still scorns a standin. In her role as chronic stowaway Ada Quonsett...
...work of the city planner is highly technical, complex and occasionally grubby. It is also exciting, full of heady schemes and grandiose concepts. Among the most grandiose are those advanced by Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, 56, inventor and prophet of "ekistics," meaning the science of human settlements. His planning and design firms employ more than a thousand people in Athens, Washington and 17 other cities. His smallest projects these days are complete university campuses, his largest embrace thousands of square miles, such as the River Plate Basin Development Program, involving new towns and transportation in five South American countries. A better...
They live in overmortgaged, underserviced blue-collar ghet tos where they pay a stiffer price - in poor schools, en croaching throughways and war casualties - than do affluent whites across the city lines. Most of them still believe in God, country, the work ethic and a sexual standard that calls for at least a decent public restraint. In a day of diz zying moral change, they see themselves as the last defenders of moral authority. That is why they still admire the military and regard the police as heroes. The New York Times's Tom Wicker had a revelation...