Word: heightening
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...Bank has perpetuated itself in a delicate honeycomb by Edward D. Stone. Tier upon tier of arches suggests a squared-off Tower of Pisa; behind the concrete colonnades is an all-glass building. At each floor level, a continuous flower bed with piped-in water provides hanging gardens to heighten the parallel between Beverly Hills and Babylon...
Duvalier's popularity constitutes a serious obstacle to American and OAS attempts to remove him from office. His overthrow would make him appear as a martyr in the fight against white imperialism, and his popularity among the 90 per cent Negro population would increase. Martyring Duvalier would at once heighten Haitian hostility to the United States and at the same time hinder, if not actually cripple, any attempts at internal reform...
...also screams quite a bit, and in the pill-box Loeb Experimental Theatre this can be disconcerting to the audience as well as to his wife. But most of the high-pitched rantings are totally justified, and Mills' elaborate gestures, which would be tame for a 19th century melodrama, heighten the comedy...
...Lake Arrowhead science center for a weekend of astronomy and nature studies. The power of Slaton's project is its simple premise-not to reform public schools or start private schools, but to help kids help themselves to learning. Slaton says that his objective is "to stimulate or heighten interest." Adds one mother: "It's easier to get them to do this than their awn schoolwork. It's their own choice, and that's the secret...
...academic area; (b) to provide opportunity for the student to discover what scholarly inquiry in general is about... (d) to give early opportunity for the student to test strenuously his academic pre-dispositions." (p. 8) "The seminars were in no sense to replace departmental courses; they were, ideally, to heighten their impact." (p. 17) "We did not worry that by pursuing a focused inquiry we would lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic...