Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time when corporate managements are pleading guilty to tampering in domestic and international political matters, and are engaged in numerous other activities that have aroused public ire, some may question the granting of a "blank check" to managements to extend their tenures and reduce their accountability as "socially irresponsible behavior...
There are a few singles in the Yard, but they are all in the Union dorms, on the other side of the Union from the Yard. People who live in these all-male dorms get used to blank stares when they say they live in Pennypacker or Greenough, and Hurlbut residents are invariably asked if that isn't some kind of fish. The dorms are not really close to the center of the Yard, and people who live in them often feel isolated from its activities. But this usually disappears by the time the fall semester begins...
...record, Ina Ray Hutton, with her all-girl orchestra in the background, presents the Governor of Louisiana with a rendition of his own composition, Every Man a King. The Governor is seated during the performance, blank-faced and staring straight ahead as one hand flaps in an approximation of syncopation. He thanks Ina Ray and allows that her chances are good, although for what he does not say. The singer and the politician look and sound, accordingly, like contestant and M.C. on some cosmic amateur hour...
...abrupt angles and change hue from blue to gray to black, depending on the light. In his recently opened North Jutland Museum of the Arts in Aalborg, Denmark, Aalto confronted the most difficult challenge in museum design: natural lighting. Most architects avoid the issue by putting up blank walls of solid masonry or tinted glass. But Aalto allows sunlight to pour through high windows, then tames it by bouncing it off curved structural beams so that the light diffuses evenly over the interior walls. The Aalborg design reflects one of Aalto's guiding convictions: man must always stay...
...Cavafy underwent a tracheotomy for throat cancer. After prolonged agony, he died on April 29, 1933, his 70th birthday. His last conscious act was to draw a circle on a blank sheet of paper and then place a period in the middle of it. The cycle of his life had ended; the cycle of his art had scarcely begun...