Word: circularity
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...dried-up moat and ivied ruins, a curious procession trudged up the hill to the "haunted" castle of Tiffauges on the old Brittany frontier. First came Mayor Fernand Baron, followed by a gesticulating guide, two workmen with shovels, and a government archaeologist. The mayor led the party down a circular stone stairway to the crypt of the castle chapel. By flashlight the men saw two rows of granite columns dividing the vaulted 12-ft. ceiling into three naves. Before the granite altar at the end of the 27-ft. crypt lay a pile of stones...
Shocked by the "indecent undress" of foreign tourists, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 76-year-old Roman Catholic Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, last month advised visiting priests and nuns to stay away from Venice in the summer. "It is," said the cardinal in a circular letter, "an open outrage against natural and Christian morals to wear in the public streets scanty clothing barely tolerable at beaches." In Rome the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano approvingly reprinted Roncalli's letter and added its own objections to foreign tourists who "wear in our cities clothing fit only for their own bedrooms or bathrooms...
...silver-haired good looks, and her lavish parties, Mrs. Janet R. Gray was one of Atlanta's most popular hostesses. At her ranch-style home on 15 wooded acres in suburban Doraville, the charming divorcee entertained scores of Atlantans at parties beside her swimming pool hard by the circular exercise track for her show horses. She made friends everywhere. On regular visits to the beauty parlor downtown she always tipped the operator $2 for a shampoo, $5 for a silver rinse. By entering her blonde, buxom niece, Candace Victoria Laine ("I call her Candy") in Atlanta's smart...
...irrelevancy of the material studied. The student who looked at a discipline from the outside seldom found it possible to use this approach for dealing with anything which really mattered to him He found himself regarding the academic life as a meaningless game, a juggling of materials into circular and therefore meaningless patterns. And so Rumplestiltskin was forced either to ignore what he was learning or else to stride pensively up and down his Elsinore posing endless alternatives until either madness or disaster followed his incapacity to exclude possibilities in favor of action...
...rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled bath with a circular tub of cerulean Italian tiles. Architect Hampton built the house to suit the owner's specific demands: "A home where I and my friends could be comfortable in shorts or a dinner jacket...