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SAARINEN'S colleges, as well as fitting into Yale's environment, if dormitory needs, and its construction budget, are excellent works of architectural design. The greatest single innovation of the colleges, and one which adds much to its physical beauty, is the technique used in constructing the exterior walls. Both the Yale administration and the architect were agree that the colleges should have the look of permanency which most of the university's other buildings possessed. The color and texture of the walls of the earlier colleges strongly resembled that of the cotswolds in England, a warm greyish, stable effect...
...schizophrenic response: "Those things on the side look like charred tree trunks-only they're pregnant." A single offbeat response to a single inkblot, says Dr. Holtzman. "leaves the psychologist up in the air. You may have a guy who suppresses Charles Addams tendencies under a peaceful exterior, or he may really be a peaceful little guy who has a Charles Addams imagination. And that isn't bad. Because our technique relies on many cards, we can judge whether an odd response is isolated and relatively insignificant, or whether it forms part of a pattern of responses...
Jack's hero in Three Cheers for Me is Bartholomew Bandy, whose long and inscrutably deadpan face exasperates everyone who lays eyes upon it. Bandy's blank exterior hides nothing but innocence. Son of a Canadian cleric, he is unsullied by liquor or women. But then Bandy goes off to fight in World War I and lurches into manhood like a drunk stumbling down a flight of stairs-always headed in the right direction but never quite in control of himself or the situation...
Beneath a sleek, soft-spoken exterior, Harris seethes with an intense drive. "The reason Kennedy and I got along well together during the campaign," he says, "is that we both go all out. He once told somebody, T can't hold back the stops. I have to go flat out, all out.' I feel the same way." Harris' drive has carried him up from a hard-knocks beginning in New Haven, Conn. His father died when he was six, and the bank in which his widowed mother kept her savings went broke. But with pinching...
only 27 defeats by stressing solid precision tactics-he would rehearse a play 500 times before using it in a game-and for all his hard-bitten exterior raised a whole generation of U.S. football coaches ranging from Yale's late Herman Hickman to Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd; of a liver and kidney ailment; in New Orleans...