Word: complements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose hallowed niches are normally restricted to a full complement of 50 members, took in two more of the elite, to raise its roster to 49: Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Conrad (A Letter from Li Po) Aiken, 67, and Russian-born Composer Igor (The Firebird) Stravinsky, a U.S. citizen since...
...eloquent as Ben Shahn has been in the fall Norton lectures, his pictures speak with a bolder and more significant voice. The Fogg Museum has done well to complement the artist's stay here with an excellent exhibition of his work...
...past three years, Bundy has been an effective complement to President Pusey in advising and carrying out the latter's educational programs. "Where Mr. Pusey strikes you with his directness and his strong-minded stability," one Faculty member recently remarked, "Mac Bundy positively scintillates. He goes off like a fireworks factory, bing, bing, and thinks so fast that he often outruns his troops...
...building such a community in the College, the needs complement each other. Perhaps the most urgent of the College's environmental needs is for additional Houses. Our seven Houses were constructed and put into operation more than twenty-five years ago. At the same time the Freshman Class was established in the Yard. Down to the second World War the largest number of undergraduates for whom rooms were provided in a single year was only a few more than 2700. Since the War it has never been fewer than 3700. And there are now actually fewer rooms available than twenty...
Richard L. Solomon, associate professor of Social Psychology, also disapproved of the ban. He felt, however, that "going steady" could be "most constructive." When the interests of the "steady" couple complement each other, the practice "could help broaden intellectual horizons," he stated...