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With 90 offices, the building will provide space for the staffs of Romance Languages, Germanic Languages, Slavic, History and Literature, Comp Lit, Classics, and Public Speaking (housed in the "attic"). With these numerous offices, the departments will have expanded facilities that will soon allow even the junior members to enjoy private rooms. Specifically-constructed Finnish furniture adorns seminar rooms, a modern library occupies the new mezzanine floor, and the lecture hall--when it loses its canvas protective covering--will have great beauty. "President Pusey gave us one directive," Levin comments, "Get a good-looking lecture room...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: A 'New' Home for Modern Language Instruction | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...twilight, a second-class citizen in a society where the first-class citizens "spend their time mostly looking forward to the past." He has captured his wife Alison (Mary Ure) from the enemy above. With her and his business partner (excellently played by Gary Raymond), he lives in an attic in a Midlands town so bleak that it seems to smell of soft coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter runs a sweets stall in the marketplace, when he is not thundering harangues against Alison and her upper-middle-class family and friends. His wife loves him despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Sifting the Evidence. In Salt Lake City, summoned by Mrs. Connie Johnson to catch a prowler, police fired two tear gas shells into her attic, set the whole second story afire, after inspection of the charred wreckage reported: "No prowler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...business. How long could Harper keep Grey alive? The explanation, say Harper editors, is really quite simple. Their man was so prolific-writing longhand on a lap board at the rate of 100,000 words a month-that no publisher could have hoped to keep pace. Grey's attic yielded so many leftover manuscripts that Harper's will be able to maintain its practice of putting out an annual Zane Grey novel "for the next several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Rides On--and On | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...close to four years, according to Cheng's story, the attic had been his home. The bumping noises had been Cheng skipping rope to keep in shape. By day he had slept on the stolen padding of a church pew. By night he had prowled the church grounds, filching food from the church kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholar's Tower | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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