Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as silence and darkness are one for the woman, so too sound and light are one for Krieger. Beckett's original stage directions call for one spotlight hung low in front to swing over the faces. Krieger has moved the spotlight according to her own design. She places it high behind the actors to play on the backs of their heads, on and off like the metronome. Since the stage is otherwise dark, the actors' faces cannot be seen. They appear only in outline, like the images of film negatives; or through their partially transparent urns like...
...Cambridge Superior Court House, with its louvered windows, circular court rooms and 21 stories of tinted security glass, textured feroconcrete and stainless steel, is the very last word in court-house design. But inside those acoustically balanced halls of justice, the personnel and practices of Middlesex County government have not changed much since the bad old days when men in pin-striped suits traded political favors in smoke-filled rooms. Balding attorneys and paunchy politicians still hover in the hallways. Superior Court judges cling to their traditional summer long vacations even though the new building's air-conditioning system makes...
...successful politicians. Lodge spent most of the 1952 campaign steering Eisenhower first to the Republican nomination and later to the White House; his loss to Kennedy is at least party attributable to that. Saltonstall, for his part, seems to have achieved his positions more by accident than by design, although he clearly enjoyed a good political fight. What characterized both their careers, moreover, was a genuinely patrician sense of duty. They had an obligation to serve. But that obligation was to the nation, and national security abroad, rather than to domestic welfare. Neither was cold-hearted about the poor...
...effects: 1) push the Kremlin to bear down even harder on its restive citizens to show that it is not influenced by outside "interference in its internal affairs" and 2) so sour the atmosphere between the two countries that any arms agreement would be scuttled. Whether by coincidence or design, the Russians arrested Yuri Orlov, a dissident physicist, within 24 hours after the Carter press conference...
...hiring practice shows that "the continued paucity of enrolled students in GSAS is not without an element of design," the letter stated...