Word: clutter
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...architecture of Yale University has long been an enormous clutter of poorly integrated styles and hideous imitations, where Gothic halls are topped by Georgian towers, smoke-stacks disguised as medieval spires, and streets lined with Greek, Italian, Byzantine, and ancient Egyptian fakery. In recent years, however, Yale has begun what its enthusiasts consider a revolution in college building...
...whilom heroes of a gay, grotesque little novel by the late Henri Pierre Roché, now made into a gay, grotesque little movie by France's François Truffaut (The 400 Blows). Charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise: the film is an exercise in contradiction, a clutter of inconsequence transformed by imagination as a trash heap is transformed by moonlight...
Blaming the Foreigners. U.S. textilemen, so fiercely independent by nature that they seldom agree on anything, are virtually unanimous in their cry for Government help. A clutter of hundreds of savagely competing firms, the textile industry is dogged by the fact that since World War II, Americans have steadily reduced the percentage of their income they spend on clothes. As a result, U.S. production of cotton goods has fallen 2% since 1947, prices have shrunk 3%, and textile jobs have declined from 1,325,000 to 840,000. For the industry as a whole, profits run less than...
...white, knowing the outcomes, musing on strengths and weaknesses unseen by the players. It is to catalyze these dark musings, not to commemorate the players, that Stacton restages the old battles. Not surprisingly, his novels lack the painted scenery and speeches in all-purpose King James dialect that clutter other historical fiction. In A Signal Victory, the ironically titled tale of the Spanish conquest of the Maya civilization, there is not a line of dialogue. The book's most vivid presence is that of Author Stacton, brooding in mordant aphorisms about the uses of power. Everything is stated...
...bond issue is all right, and I approve of what we're trying to do in the Congo. Just the same, we should only invest million, and not half." The information or educational values served reporting this opinion are not read-discernible. Similar statements from more common men clutter up a front-page article on the tariff in the second and obscure a deeply-buried but good discussion of Kennedy's trade program. The history of given issue, apparently destined to another National Observer staple, ought to be used with discretion; in tariff article, it sheds little light on what...