Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House which asserts Harvard's debt to the great traditions of European building--architectural styles which must always be viewed in context of a general Zeitgeistlicheweltanschauung. One thinks immediately of the ultimate synthesis, a Greek temple with flying buttress. Such a structure would squat gracefully across Boylston Street and express the ever-existant tension between the real and the ideal...
Stifled Scandals. French newspapers hinted at wider repercussions, at even more extensive political involvements. "The search for truth in this affair," cautioned L'Express, "will require justices with plenty of independence and magistrates with plenty of character and a high sense of duty." The lawyers on one side of the case included the attorney who once represented King Mohammed V of Morocco, and ex-Premier Edgar Faure, whose government had given Morocco its independence. Paris-Presse warned that "other characters" who have played "great roles in our postwar history" might come into the case, warned: "This affair must...
...AMERICAN EXPRESS credit cards have been issued to 500,000, v. 940,000 who hold Diners' Club cards...
...Metropolitan District Commission will hold a public hearing Thursday at 3 p.m. for "everyone concerned" to express his opinion about plans for the new Metropolitan Boston Arts Center, Mrs. John C. Vosoff, MEBAC secretary, disclosed last night...
Naked Pink Lady. To this day, Sikkim's mountain climbers lift one flap on their fur caps, the better to hear the devils that always go uphill, never down. Lamas stage skeleton dances to drive away evil spirits. The country has no newspapers, and mail goes by pony express. There are no lawyers, because the government thinks that lawyers stir up more trouble than they are worth. A magistrate hears both sides of an argument, makes his judgment. Crime is so rare that there are never more than 15 prisoners in jail...