Word: dissimilarity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Travelers who have seen such strikingly dissimilar buildings as Cairo's Nile Hilton hotel, Los Angeles' disc-shaped Sports Arena. Abilene's stark Eisenhower museum and Hollywood's Capitol Records Building (which looks like a stack of records) would be hard pressed to say what all had in common. The answer: they were all designed by Los Angeles' Welton Becket, a Jack-of-all-styles architect who can run up a pancakelike auditorium or a soaring office building-or any of several dozen other styles and treatments-with equal ease...
...obviously weighed each word for accuracy and appropriateness, has listened for its value and effect. In his most successful poems, Mr. Sandy is a quiet and reflective poet, filtering his impressions through an attitude of thin irony; in his less effective poems he is a pyro-technician mixing together dissimilar images, and coming up with something considerably less impressive and less compelling than his more lucid work...
...Hastings Banda, 55, of Nyasaland, and Kenneth Kaunda, 36, of Northern Rhodesia, two African leaders who are united in the determination to destroy the Central African Federation, a nation tacked together by Britain in 1953 in a desperate effort to make a stable, viable country out of three dissimilar territories carved out of the bush by Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes. The Federation consists of Nyasaland, copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia, the last being the only one of the three that includes a large (211,000) white settler population. It is Southern Rhodesia's whites, who are sentimentally...
...human side of some very dissimilar papas was laid bare in a book titled The Father: Letters to Sons and Daughters, edited by Evan Jones and published last week (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $3.95)In 1950, not long after his young daughter Isabel had gone to Paris and succumbed to "the romantic alchemy" of a much older, married man, Humorist Ogden Nash wrote a prescription: "Keep on having your gay time, but just keep yourself in hand, and remember that generally speaking it's better to call older men Mister." In 1930, India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was serving...