Word: colliseum
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...think it's smart to keep athletes by athletic facilities," James G. Jollis '82 said yesterday, adding, "At Ohio State all the football players get to live at dorms right in the colliseum...
...gardeners work on the acres of forest and expenses of green lawn. Most of the entrances are patrolled by security guards. Dotting the landscape are small ponds and lakes, athletic facilities which include a domed tennis building with more than 25 courts, a hockey rink, polo field and colliseum-like football field. One of the small groves hides a Greek amphitheater. Beautiful pieces of sculpture rest undisturbed on the lawns. The buildings are low and beautiful, with copper roofs and leaded windows...
...Super Bowl festivities continued the next day. The green area surrounding the Los Angeles Colliseum was littered spectators awaiting the 12:30 kickoff. One group of Redskins fans led by a painted brave with buffalo horns snaked its way through the crowds to the best of a drum...
...using this system of measurement his work is a derivitive of some of the best Greco-Roman and Renaissance architect-humanists who based their architecture on the proportions of the human figure as well. With their own module, the golden section, they designed such visually beautiful buildings as the Colliseum and the Parthenon. Are these harsh and raw? Le Corbusier does use new materials--it is a new age; but the humaneness is borne out by the same proportions of the design. Thus, what I mean by the building being a functional companion to our activity...