Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting American, life at New College seems to be a curious combination of the very primitive and very elegant. Certainly the 14th Century architecture is as uncomfortable to dwell in as it is beautiful to look at. Through the magnificent arches, behind the Gothic windows, lie dark little rooms with gloomy, yellow wallpaper. Some of them have no hot water, and where this is so, their occupants have to use a great church-like building that houses nothing but baths, rows and rows of them...
...agonies of a man who has tied himself unwillingly, irrevocably, to a wretched fellow human whose claim is based subtly on weakness. Author Matthiessen has successfully brought off something more than a war novel. The reader cannot avoid thinking of all the Raditzers he ever knew; he may even dwell uneasily, however briefly, on the Raditzer-Charlie Stark amalgam in himself...
EMPERORS are popularly thought to dwell in gilded palaces, but one of the world's few surviving emperors has lived for the past 15 years in a concrete air-raid shelter. See FOREIGN NEWS, Emperor's Year...
Those of us who dwell in the military environment will be first to admit that there is a great deal of waste in the armed services, as there is in any gigantic or widespread business enterprise, and that it should be remedied...
Frank Lloyd Wright once looked with distaste at the sprawl that is Pittsburgh, and gave the city fathers his solemn advice: "Abandon it." Architects with the king-sized imagination of a Wright have always let one corner of the mind dwell on the impossible. Their most grandiose schemes often end up in the wastebasket, either stymied by technology or vetoed by those who regard themselves as more practical (and sometimes are). But the visionary architects go on dreaming of mushroom-shaped houses, glass pyramids and spiral cities. Last week, in a lively show called "Visionary Architecture," Manhattan's Museum...