Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...effects of tars and nicotine. Last week the Swedish tobacco monopoly settled on a fractions-of-an-inch policy: the last puffs do more harm than the first. Testing 19 local and 18 foreign brands, the Swedish Institute for People's Health found that king-sized cigarettes give the smoker more tars and nicotine if smoked to the same stub as a regular, much less than a regular if smoked only for 1⅞ inches, the usual length of a smoke for regulars. Convinced that the trouble comes in the last few puffs,* the tobacco monopoly took...
Tigris in the Gardens. Prime case in point is Gropius' new plan for Iraq's University of Baghdad. The $70 million project seemed a lost cause when General Abdul Karim Kassem swept to power last summer. Never one to give up easily, Gropius last January flew to Baghdad himself with plans and models, found, to his relief, that Premier Kassem was enthusiastic.* Kassem's only cavil: the university was not big enough. Gropius promptly agreed to increase the size by one-third (from 8,000 to 12,000 students...
...Technical Dam-Burst." Taking time out this week, Gropius will go to New Orleans to receive the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the profession's highest award, given in the past to such men as Louis Henri Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It will also give Gropius a chance to get some long-brooding concerns off his chest. Says Gropius: "We have now amassed such a tremendous arsenal of techniques that their bristling display has nearly robbed us of our sense of balance...
Author Greene considers The Complaisant Lover his best play, and the London critics-who were not notably stirred by his earlier stage tries-agreed enthusiastically. Amid the general applause, a minority of Greene fans hoped that he would not give up religious themes for good; quite a few playwrights have successfully written about manners and immorals, but few nowadays even attempt to deal with miracles...