Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technical point. You mention that "the exact positioning of the visors is not duplicated in any previous Le Corbusier work but is vaguely similar to those used in the government buildings of Chandigarh, India. . ." You imply that these are almost completely new, which they are. Actually the visors (more correctly, brise-sollel, invented by Le Corbusier in 1931) cannot be duplicated anyway, if geographical and climatological positions of the buildings differ. Here more than anywhere, form follows function; or better yet, form and function...
...aise recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director...
...many quotes that he often seems not to be writing at all but excerpting. Yet Namier revolutionized the writing of history and became in the eyes of his British colleagues the greatest historian of the century. "I worshiped him," said Arnold Toynbee, whose own history is the exact opposite of Namier's. "He was a big man with a big mind...
...years after the U.S. first imposed an income tax, to help finance the Civil War, President Lincoln apologized to the nation for the "inequities in the practical applications." But he added: "If we should wait before collecting a tax, to adjust the taxes upon each man in exact proportion with every other, we should never collect...
Traces of the oldtime embarrassment remain. Many appointments for fittings are made after dark, the exact number of toupee wearers cannot be fixed,* and the acceptable word is now "hairpiece." But vanity has overcome reticence, and sales have risen consistently over the past ten years...