Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, when Nehru talked of stepping down from office because he was getting "flat and stale" and querulous, his ruling Congress Party begged him to remain at the helm. Congressmen cried: "Panditji, you are leaving us orphans!" and Nehru had consented to remain in office. Leaving this emotional scene, one Congressman, who had joined in the sycophantic clamor, said to another: "The farce is over. Let's go home and laugh...
Fossil Volcanoes. Geologists and oceanographers who look to the ocean's bottom have found that the ocean is a gigantic museum, where geological specimens are preserved like flies in amber. Among the most interesting of these geological fossils are the guyots, the flat-topped extinct volcanoes that dot the Pacific floor. How did they get down there, the oceanographer asks. Did their weight force them into the earth's crust, like corks pushed into putty? Did the ocean increase in volume and rise above them...
...With a green light from the Congregationalists, Delattre poked around North Beach-an Italian neighborhood with a heavy lacing of art galleries, sandal shoppes and beatnickery-and found a 30-by-40-ft. store at Greenwich Street and Grant Avenue. He moved his wife and two children into a flat upstairs, furnished the store with a hi-fi set, a coffee urn and 2,000 books of his own, and opened up a year...
Delattre holds weekly seminars in poetry and prose, stages original plays, has a psychiatrist from the San Francisco Veterans' Administration give group therapy sessions. On Sundays Delattre invites a select half-dozen to his flat for an agape* of bread, wine and cheese...
Acknowledged shrine of modern architecture was the famed Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and Architect Walter Gropius was its high priest. The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades. An exile from Hitler's Germany, Gropius introduced his methods as chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, revolutionized architecture in the U.S., became so firmly planted in architectural history that people were sometimes amazed to find him still a part of the present...