Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...task Gunther brings driving curiosity, elephantine memory, gregarious charm, ferocious vitality. Reporter Gunther also has phenomenally sharp ears and eyes for the telling anecdote and the detail that vividly catches the mood. He has a homing instinct for the essentials in a complex situation. He is a master of the art of brain-picking-and of choosing the right brain to pick. From careful homework, he knows precisely what information his story needs, and can extract it with the efficiency of an automatic orange squeezer...
...Adam, Eve, Adams's legendary wife Lilith and a hor mone-happy stranger as the disturbed protagonists. In style it was light but pricked with wryly ironic wit. Clytemnestra, with a grindingly dissonant score by Egyptian Composer Halim El-Dabh, was a more impressive work and far more complex. Both its power and its tortuous complexities derived from Choreographer Graham's technique of unfolding the story as a memory of past events sounding shrilly in the echo chamber of Clytemnestra's mind. In four acts, Graham introduced Clytemnestra in Hades, shifted back in time to Clytemnestra...
...size of Germany's wolf pack at the outbreak of World War II. Very soon, new Soviet boats will have missile capacity; Central Intelligence Agency Chief Allen Dulles estimates that ten missile-carrying subs could destroy 1,600 sq. mi. of the U.S. seaboard's industrial complex unless anti-submarine defenses stop them. Admiral Thach's job: to renovate an antisub screen that has become rusty with inadequate equipment, antiquated tactics and too much Navy attention to supercarriers...
...emerging from his cell, with its austere discipline and chaste aspirations, he will be profoundly shocked to see the way his own truth and power are prostituted to ends with which he cannot become reconciled. He will then do like all pietists before him: propose simple solutions to complex problems, see all issues naively and out of context, and make absolute moral judgments where the need is for shrewd compromise...
Pills & Palace. Once on the site, Stone decided to take his architectural rhythm from Stanford University's low, Romanesque quadrangle. He laid out the medical complex in a low, three-story group within a 56-acre site, introduced inner landscaped courts, included sumptuous water gardens and fountains (see cut). To face the buildings, Stone designed a rough-surfaced grille of 3-ft. 8-in. units, carried it behind a 3Oo-ft.-long colonnade. Stone hopes the result, scheduled for completion in September 1959, will rival the beauty of Europe's great squares, and at the same time relate...