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...revealed a driving religious concern and a nervously aggressive masculine line. In his later poems (Life Studies), Lowell has limbered his forms and strengthened a strong and even peculiar personal tone that sounds a little like cubistic Browning. Like Browning, he seems to lack or at any rate to disdain the gifts of melody and phrase; though now and then, as in his lament for the passing of the civic virtues that once made Boston great, he gets off a sizzling epithet...
...long as the House System is no more than a bunch of colorless names and colorful cupolas it deserves a reaction of apathy, if not disdain. But once a Committee looks beyond the obvious architectural and spiritual separateness of the dormitories and finds functions that answer a specific need, the House can develop a valid ralson-d'etre, and command respect, if not gung-ho enthusiasm. Such needs that we feel we have partially met are those of increased contact with older members of the academic community, especially women in graduate school and the Institute; the purely practical function...
...those who disdain a mechanistic appearance in house (the Dymaxion house has often been called a "machine for living"), Fuller answers, "There was a moment when industrialism began to advance when men were apprehensive. Such men as Emerson and Thoreau were afraid that everything would become stereotyped. In fact, what has happened in the industrial revolution has been quite the contrary. Different models develop all the time: passenger planes, bombers, small planes, large planes. The species is multiplying fabulously. There's no such thing as a stereotype...
...leadfooted daredevils who race on Europe's Grand Prix circuit, at Indianapolis' famed "Brickyard," and on dusty stock-car tracks across the U.S. have only two things in common: a fondness for money and a disdain for one another. Last week they got a chance to exploit both emotions. All three classes of drivers competed in the Daytona Continental, a three-hour endurance race for sports and grand touring cars, run over Florida...
Most Italian businessmen seem to share Valerie's disdain for "those bureaucrats in Rome." After Olivetti's Underwood takeover, one industrialist exulted: "Americans used to come here as if they were visiting Black Africa, but they've learned a thing or two." To a man. North Italian businessmen dislike the "Italian miracle" phrase that the Italian press began to use some years ago. Says Leopoldo Pirelli, 36, third generation of his family to run the huge (1961 sales: $220 million) Pirelli rubber company: "There's more perspiration than is normally involved in a miracle." The secret...