Word: circularized
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...skinned concubines. He was one of the great melodramatists of all time, and his melodramas were always superb. His Sardanapalus was inspired by reading a dramatic poem by Lord Byron, and the picture he painted has the impact of an orgy. The figures are so arranged, in an almost circular composition, that they seem to swirl and dance, much like the flames that will soon over take them. This is romanticism at the boiling point-an extraordinary mixture of the exotic and erotic, a masterpiece so filled with the thrill of the sadist that, as he grew older, Delacroix himself...
...answer to the threat of too much professionalism at the undergraduate level has been to break up the specialties and give the student a bit of each. This solution is not generally admired in Britain. The everage British don associates the elective, cafeteria style, reminiscent of the four-troughed circular platters one must carry around at Harvard, and contrasts this with an honest meal of roast meat and Yorkshire pudding...
...marchers filed through the circular driveway and onto the grounds in front of the statehouse in Columbia, S.C. They carried signs reading DOWN WITH SEGREGATION and I AM PROUD TO BE A NEGRO. Everything seemed orderly enough, but City Manager Irving McNayr spotted some "possible troublemakers," ordered Columbia's cops to send the Negro demonstrators home. When the Negroes refused, 187 were arrested, charged and convicted of "breach of the peace," handed jail sentences of up to 30 days or fines...
Happily, crossing the chasm leaves many other all-round boys, if not circular, at least elliptical. There are PBH, HDC, and WHRB. There are the literary magazines and the seminars, the political magazines and the musical organizations. And there is the CRIMSON...
...other day we descended a circular staircase in our House kitchen and spent several hours below ground taking a tour of Central Kitchens. We had an appointment with Mr. Charles Whiteside, the chief engineer, who was more than a little harassed when we met him outside the bakery. Mr. Whiteside told us there had been a breakdown in the dishwater recirculation system, which he would have to attend to if the students of Harvard were to be fed that night. He apologized for not being able to take us on a thorough tour but invited us to accompany...