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...there is reason to fear that LeCorbusier's first building will not be completed on schedule because preliminary planning has gone askew...
Tomlinson also crowned himself "King of Radcliffe" in a day full of royal activities. He planted his "all-nations flag of peace" in the snow outside the Radcliffe Library last night and proclaimed Gertrude McC. Askew '64 and Karen S. Lipschultz '64 as "queens" of the Theocratic Party...
...trouble. Last week he quit for the seventh time, dashing off his letter of resignation after a brisk three-mile constitutional at a resort on the Sea of Galilee. He then cut the letter by 80% and bounced into an emergency Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, his hair so wildly askew that reporters agreed: "The old man's in a fighting mood." The letter itself was full of cloudy references to "the rule of law, the separation of powers . . . the call of my conscience." But everybody in Israel knew that Ben-Gurion's real purpose was to demolish...
Often the priest appeared in church to say Mass with some of his clothes turned inside out and his biretta askew. If there were finicky intellectuals present, he was likely to recite the liturgy in ungrammatical Latin. Sometimes he had his hair cut in church: once he turned up at the poshest party in Rome with a week's growth of beard on one side of his face. Yet he was a saint-respected by several Popes, visited by cardinals on his sickbed...
...hoped that the main light in the huge round gallery would come from the glass dome roof. Sweeney installed bright fluorescent lighting. He painted the walls a dazzling white ("Sweeney white-the color of death!" protested Wright), and to overcome the artists' lament that their paintings would look askew because of Wright's sloping "continuous floor." Sweeney devised an ingenious way of displaying his unframed canvases on rods projected from the walls. But for all his innovations, he could never get over the feeling that he was running not a museum but a monument to Wright...