Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fit the museum to his tastes, Ultra-modernist Sweeney had used flat white paint and light to cancel out a good many Wright concepts. Canvases were mounted unframed on rods projecting from the dazzling white wall. Bright, fluorescent lights were installed in the side skylights, canceling out Wright's sunlight but creating a brilliant background wall of light. As a result, the paintings seem to hover weightlessly in luminous space. "We are not trying to show nature effects in sunlight, but paintings," Sweeney stated. "This is the most spectacular museum interior architecturally in this country...
Once a schoolmaster, the Archbishop of Canterbury relentlessly assigns papers to his church-and on subjects fit to make a county curate spill his tea. In recent years the Anglican Church has issued opinions on artificial insemination, birth control, homosexuality and prostitution. Out last week was the latest: Ought Suicide to be a Crime...
...Dinks" are ludicrous beanies that rarely fit and are greatly unbecoming to the freshman. Regulation number four tries to justify the wearing of the caps: "The purpose...is to instill the true spirit of Pennsylvania into the Class...
Still, Bradley says the freedom allowed instructors--"they can teach their courses any way they see fit"--can be bad, as well as good. "If there were more supervision, shabby work would be reduced." To some, this may seem contradictory. Further-more, "If I want to say something radical, I don't have to worry," says Bradley. He conveys the impression of a University based, from the President down to the students, on individualism and responsibility. This view is the one the administration and faculty put forth to the world, and it is probably the one they believe. Yet some...
Picking years chosen to fit their point, Moscow's statistical wizards even "prove" that between 1952 and 1958 (a U.S. recession year), Russia registered steady increases in production of pig iron, steel, coal and cotton textiles, while the U.S. lost ground; absolute production figures, which show the U.S. far ahead in every important industrial and mining product except coal and iron ore, are discreetly left in the background or totally ignored.* But in the last fortnight, as he meandered through Siberia on his way home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country...