Word: departments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...
...discotheque idea began in Paris about five years ago and quickly spread through Europe. New York Francophiles soon founded similar night spots, such as Shepheard's, Arthur, and II Mil, which all depart from discotheque tradition by featuring eacophonous bands along with the usual LP platters. La Discotheque Nicole is closer to the French version; it is small, has only recorded music, and keeps down the sound level to permit conversation...
Both Lundy and Rudolph are Harvard-educated and Gropius-trained architects. Both have rebelled against Gropius' group architecture, which stresses teamwork over individual ex pression. Both depart from a trim, easily reproduced machine esthetic, and both are influenced by that archromantic, Frank Lloyd Wright, who never would put up with it. Although each is different, they search for individual freedom to make spatial poetry, however flamboyant, that endures. Their concrete lessons may make boxy boredom obsolete...
...sort of peace, either through force of arms or OAS persuasion, will eventually be imposed. But the dangers of anarchy-fed Castroism will remain for a long while. To prevent that, President Johnson has accepted a clear and unwavering U.S. responsibility. "The United States," said the President, "will never depart from its commitment to the preservation of the right of all of the free people of this hemisphere to choose their own course without falling prey to international conspiracy from any quarter." The meaning was as unmistakable as the presence of U.S. combat troops in Santo Domingo...
...pair of Manhattan abortionists (Severn Darden and Anthony Holland) are flown in to minister to the sculptor's girl friend. In a campy comedy sequence played for somewhat more than it is worth, they debate the merits of Leonardo da Vinci while performing their grisly chore, then depart for Kansas City. "One of the most serene of cities," Darden coos. "The Benares of the Middle West," Holland concurs...