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...judges may well be ready to settle the when-is-sherry-sherry question on the expert and well-aged testimony of Falstaff, who defined "a good Sherris-sack" as a brew that "ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive...
Dietz climbed behind a podium at the rear of the hall and continued. "My program began last March. I am a citizen of Cambridge. I live in Cambridge. I am intensely interested in the environ. 'Environ' is a French word which means 'the surroundings.'" At this point Dietz looked at his watch and commented, "I believe my watch has stopped." "Mine hasn't," Teele retorted quickly. "One for you, Sir," Dietz said...
...Gosho (Old Imperial Palace) in Kyoto, spent hours studying the ancient temples in their garden settings. "I was overwhelmed by the serenity that can be achieved by enhancing nature," says he of those gardens. "It was here that I decided that serenity could be an important contribution to our environ ment, because our cities are so chaotic and full of turmoil." Work on the consulate general - a white structure raised slightly off the ground like a Japanese temple and surrounded by bronze and plastic sun screens- drew him to Japan again, and Yamasaki decided to go the long...
Implicit in Planner Wolfe's proposals, he concedes, is the creation of "a number of mood rooms in the shopping environ ment, and, to put it drastically, even a little bit of 'ye olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...
...made it a rule (which he still follows) to insure their privacy, by opening his own mail every morning. He avoided church politics like the plague, and his solid middle ground on all issues often seems to him like a kind of orneryness. "I always react against my environ ment," he says. "When I'm with an extreme Protestant, I tend to be more Catholic than normally; when I'm talking to an Anglo-Catholic, I begin to sound like a Protestant...