Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oldest (dating from 1727) it sports an impressively new campus. Constructed between 1945 and 1955, each boasts more gimmicks than the last. In part the campus of the 11 Faculties includes a 1250 bed hospital, a 3000 seat auditorium complete with concrete mobiles, two stadiums a saucer shaped gymnasium, a botanical garden, and acres of multicolored murals...
...movie out of them. Almost all of them are bizarre or shocking or pathetic in themselves. Those sections which fall within the normal range of experience are made to seem extraordinary by comparison. For example, shots of middle-aged women trying desperately to lose weight in a Vic Tanny gymnasium are preceded by films of a New Guinea tribe where the prettiest women are shut in cages and fattened to 270 pounds, after which they join the headman's harem...
...History. Now, on a brilliant Tuesday morning, the sub set to sea for two days of post-overhaul tests in the Atlantic. The 129 men aboard-17 of them civilian technicians from the shipyard-figured to be back in time for a party Thursday night in the base gymnasium. The occasion was the 63rd anniversary of the Navy's first submarine force...
Besides, Mather and Claverly residents use the common facilities of the Big House--its convivial grill, semi-detached library, photo dark room, music listening room, practice pianos, pool table, two recreation rooms, gymnasium, tool room, and art studio...
...undergone martyrdom-by-suicide. was guru. Rejecting its patents of superiority, Miss McCarthy sees the Glass family as "a terrifying narcissus pool." And it is on the troubling question of Seymour's suicide that she sternly calls to order the little acrobats in Seymour's moral gymnasium. "Did Seymour commit suicide because he had married a phony?" she asks. "Or because he had been lying, his author had been lying, and it was all terrible, and he was a fake...