Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone is familiar with the exterior of Eliot House, the result of the site which was offered for the bewilderment of the architects. Barren of foliage, and with a blank expanse of wall at one end, the court sorely needs the concealing grace of tree and vine. The interior is fortunately a distinct improvement. Most of the rooms are comfortable and large enough; the Common Rooms (there are two) are small but dignified. The Dining Room is too large and elaborate for daily use. It is graced by the Sargent portrait of Eliot, and by the Agassiz Inter-House Crew...
...forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order of the day in architecture. To these has been added a structure for common rooms and library, whose Georgian exterior leaves the unsuspecting visitor unprepared for the array of carved and brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue walls, and wrought-iron Venetian lamps, which decorate its lavishly gilded Italian interior. Russell Hall, happily but belatedly removed, has given way to a successor which calls to mind...
...antiseptic use be "of an angular shape, not discoid [shape of many medicinal tablets], each having the word 'POISON' and the skull & crossbones design distinctly stamped upon it. . . . The tablets are to be colored blue . . . are to be dispensed in securely stoppered glass containers on the exterior of which is placed a red label bearing the word 'POISON'. . . ." No other drug in the entire Pharmacopoeia need be colored or shaped so distinctively...
...life of Dostoevsky was closely connected with his work. Epileptic fits, occasional poverty, and a long Siberian exile in a bestial prison camp, made him spasmodically elated or despondent. He discovered in the contact with his fellow prisoners in Siberia, that under a rough exterior many criminals had really extraordinary qualities. He conceived that man might become noble through sin. When Raskolnikov, the young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather...
...quips by the staff of Time and of the New Yorker, light talks by Bruce Barton, and sketches by Peter Arno would all help put the "Record" on the newsstands. And finally a Dorothy Dix column would minister to the heart of gold that beats beneath the rough senatorial exterior...