Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Core of Sense. Yet the Seattle fair, if not grandiose, is at least grand; it has a dignified, quiet beauty, a tidiness that will make it less tiresome than most world's fairs-and a core of common sense that reflects the Northwest's reluctance to waste its assets. When it closes on Oct. 21, most of its best features will remain to form a permanent $50 million civic center. Says Fair President Joseph E. Gandy, a former auto dealer who has promoted the fair over some 1,000,000 miles from Puget Sound to Tokyo to Paris...
...dining spot above, called the Eye of the Needle, enables the visitor to watch the lakes and mountains glide by while he dines on such regional specialties as Dungeness crab, tiny, wild-flavored Olympia oysters, and grilled salmon steaks at $6.75 table-d'hote. Since the central core does not revolve, a waitress going into the kitchen for an order has to check an indicator on the wall that moves at the same speed as the dining room in order to locate customers who have orbited on in the meantime. Says Waitress Mary Ellen Harris: "Serving the soup...
According to Shaplin, there will be no entrance exams to the new school, and students will represent "a cross-section of interests and aptitudes." They will have a choice between "practical, vocational, and general" courses of study, prefaced by a two-year "hard core" of general education. Guidance counselors will route students into appropriate channels on the basis of early performance...
...loves has no secrets. Nadia Boulanger knew everything there was to know about music; she knew the oldest and the latest music, pre-Bach and post-Stravinsky, and knew it cold.... I am convinced that it is Mlle. Boulanger's perceptivity as a musician that is at the core of her teaching. She is able to grasp the still uncertain contour of an incomplete sketch, examine it, and fore-tell the probable and possible ways in which it may be developed. She is expert in picking flaws in any work in progress, and knowing why they are flaws...
...could almost understand the story better if you thought of it as some eerie power hanging over said. "The Congo is a cruel that cuts to the core of any man's any man's failing," he continued, showing how it had also exposed the U.N. in its most vulnerable spots...