Word: cumbrous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building. He is immensely sensitive to the needs of the users of a building, and he constantly sees a building as part of a larger social environment. I think what you will get from Mr. Andrews is the kind of approach that Mr. Yelton describes without the cumbrous committee structure that, in all likelihood, would simply result in a consensus of mediocrity. Claude T. Bissell President University of Toronto
...only cumbrous thing about this novel is the title, borrowed from some lines by W. H. Auden. Otherwise, Balloons Are Available is lighter than air and easily dirigible toward its comic purpose. The hero, who progresses from repairman to executive vice president, is named Howard Ormsby. Part Candide, part Buster Keaton, he is loosed in a land where every pratfall is followed by a commercial. Author Crittenden's best effects are gained through a sort of contrapuntal dialogue. One of Howard's loves tells him the story of her life, including the part about her older brother...
Torturous as it sounds, the method is essentially painless. It is admittedly cumbrous and timeconsuming, says...
...Separation. As for the Profumo case, though an official inquiry into its security aspects is nearly complete, the government has given little assurance that it will lessen what the Economist recently called "the already cumbrous weight of suspicion that there is something nasty in the woodshed." Last week the Labor Party's "shadow" Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, called for a royal commission to investigate the roles played throughout by the government, judiciary and police...
Though it has yet to show up in sales, this determined assault on Chrysler's cumbrous structure has already shown up in the company's books. By his overhead surgery, Townsend has cut Chrysler's break-even point from 1,000,000 cars a year to 800,000. Late last month, at a meeting in Detroit, he was able to announce that, despite its whopping $21 million loss in the first nine months of 1961, Chrysler's books for the full year would be in the black by "several million dollars"-thanks to a combination...