Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grand Irrationalities. At that, the showcase easily upstaged whatever took place behind the proscenium. The cavernous auditorium (3,800 seats-179 more than in the old house) is an acoustical success. There, and throughout the red-carpeted corridors, lobbies and unfurling marble staircases, Architect Wallace K. Harrison
Kerr often brings off a bright epigram: "Cruelty, carried far enough, can turn into Al Capp"; "Inadmissible Evidence is so many slivers run under all the fingernails in the auditorium." No critic, in fact, pays such meticulous attention to his prose. Indeed, he sometimes sacrifices content to style and overwrites. He trotted out a veritable Noah's Ark to praise Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl: "She's like a grasshopper, a shy one . . . she's an eel on a chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue...
...short supply. Nationwide, Catholic elementary schools average about one teacher to every 40 students, and in the crucial first three grades, the average class is nearly 50 pupils. Good teaching aids are in short supply, and 63% of the elementary schools lack such basic facilities as an auditorium, gymnasium, art or music room...
...West Germany, credit is so tight that Frankfurt last week canceled plans to build a new subway system, while Düsseldorf was forced to call off construction of a new city hall, auditorium and athletic stadium. The credit squeeze is even tougher on private industry. Corporations with Triple-A credit ratings are offering 9% interest and are still unable to raise the money they need for capital expansion. Thus, capital investment this year will drop to its lowest level since World War II. Order backlogs are falling, and the rise in productivity is only half of what...
...temporary shoring is removed. Moreover, he adds, his plan would add 41 acres of badly needed floor space within easy reach of the House and Senate cham bers, enough room for 110 new offices (many with a spectacular view of the Mall), two cafeterias, two dining rooms and an auditorium for tourists...