Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will enable houses and stores to be constructed only for privacy and aesthetic delight. Bucky has already proposed one to cover Manhattan from river to river and from 22nd St. to 62nd St. which would soar nearly three-quarters of a mile above the Empire State building, but would contain less steel than the Queen Mary...
Dean Sert reveals plans for the tenth House: a sixteen-story windowless inverted pyramid "gaily painted with colors reflecting the spirit of our times." Refuting charges of structural instability, Sert points out that "even the ancients knew the triangle was the most stable geometric form, and my pyramid will contain many triangles...
...Shakespeare's to Lincoln's is the sense that life is a cheat and its conditions those of defeat." So wrote the novelist near the end of his life when he was poor, neglected and wasted by hack writing and alcohol. But these letters, most written then, contain some of his very best writing...
...gave little thought to the preservation of his works, and the scores he left behind contain few indications of the tempo, dynamics or phrasing he intended. As a result, every participant in the current flowering of appreciation for Bach is his own final authority on interpretation. The varieties of approach that were heard last week in the annual Christmas celebration of Bach's music gave proof of the continuing depth of the argument...
Rebounding strength should provide the difference for Harvard; Tech has only two starters taller than 6-1, and it will take a lot more than slide rules and game theory to contain Williams, Inman, and McClung...