Word: exteriorizer
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Once during World War II, an outraged associate of Dulles' described the behavior of the Japanese as "unforgivable." "Christ teaches us," replied Dulles, "that nothing is unforgivable." The unaffected remark laid bare one part of his character. It is a complex character behind its grey, pedagogic exterior. The exterior, like the simple housing around a complicated turbine (said an awed friend), covers "the greatest piece of mental machinery I have ever known." God and the turbine produced the Japanese Treaty. A preacher and a diplomat produced John Foster Dulles...
...member of the faculty felt that the outside appearance of the new building was only of secondary importance. "I am much more concerned with the interior of the new building than the exterior," stated I. Bernard Cohen '37, assistant professor of General Education. "The new building is much better suited to teaching and the needs of the students and is a necessity," he went...
...modern design, the building's two large lecture halls will appear as interlocking arcs in the exterior form of the structure. Burr will be the Colleges first new classroom building since 1905, when Emerson was built. Two large lecture halls will accommodate 377 and 210 students...
...some student eventually discovered the long-smouldering blaze, he was merely able to bang on a few doors on the floor and shout a word of warning, since the smoke soon became densely acrid. Shortly, however, the operation of several sprinkler heads rang a gong on the building's exterior near the front sidewalk, but this could not be heard in many of the suites where radios were playing or students were asleep. The fact that several men were unaware of the fire some time after it was first discovered shows the lack of an effective alarm...
...Waugh gave evidence in his one great book "Brideshead Revisited" that he did have a brain underneath that fun-and-games exterior. It was a serious study, streaked through with a deeper humor, of much the same sort of people he had had such fun with in his earlier books. Waugh had come of age, one tought...