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Wallace C. Sabine, former professor of Physics, developed the science of architectural acoustics around the turn of the century. The first official unit of acoustical absorbtion was an old Sanders Theatre seat cushion which Sabine used to study the acoustics of Hunt Hall. Symphony Hall in Boston is one of the results of Sabine's work at Harvard...
...Currier House exclaiming: "Can you imagine they used to think she was beautiful" What he didn't realize is that no one, except Mae West, considered her a sex goddess. Even disregarding her face, her figure was not unlike that of Margaret Dumont, the grande dame pin-cushion in countless Marx Brothers movies: an hour-glass with rather too much sand. As Parker Tyler has suggested, West was more a female impersonator than anything else. Her "act" was not offensive because she wasn't ridiculing women, but the way men looked at women. Hers was the satire...
Last week Muskie selected Bernhard, 41, to direct his still unannounced presidential campaign. "There may be some people who feel they have to cushion me when there is unpleasant news, but they are wrong," says Muskie. "Berl doesn't cushion anything with me." A successful Washington lawyer both in and out of Government, Bernhard has a knack for employing humor to take the sting out of his stern judgments. "He will cut a guy's legs off if it has to be done," contends one close friend, "but he uses plenty of anaesthesia." Muskie prefers a woodsy Maine...
Segal's skull was saved by a mathematics professor sitting next to him who blocked the umbrella with a cushion. Not entirely undaunted, Segal spent the rest of the afternoon serenely observing one of the most blood-curdling comebacks in football history...
Sylvia saw her opportunity and seized it. The camera swung to Bob, and he was soon talking about how his father had often beaten his stepmother. "Are you still angry at your father?" Sylvia asked. Only disappointed, Bob insisted. Sylvia nodded knowingly. She instructed Bob to place a sofa cushion on the floor, to pretend that it was his father, and to express his "disappointment" to the pillow while he was hitting it. Bob took a few halfhearted swipes, and unconvincingly remonstrated with his father. Sylvia spoke sharply: "Say you're angry, not just disappointed -say it!" Suddenly...