Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a man has to hide his activities from his own family, or a corporation from its stockholders, or a doctor from his patient and even a nation from its people, the reasons had better stand up to verification in the spotlight of discovery...
...Julius Ansel (D-Boston) was quoted by the Boston Globe as saying, "If the MTA management has nothing to hide, they should welcome an investigation. I think there are members of the MTA who don't want to put their own house in order...
...this is part of Le Corbusier's belief that no fancy surfacing, decorative covering, or even the sense of precision imposed by modern machinery, has been allowed to hide the fact that architecture through the ages is as much the work of the hand as of the head. As Le Corbusier said in his own royal way: "Le Corbusier has kept the instinct of the prophetic, indispensable, practical and beneficent relations between the hand and the head...
...that it is highly ionized on top and therefore glows, making the planet appear hotter than it really is. Such an atmosphere would be brighter at the edges than in the center, and since the Venusian atmosphere does not show this, Venus can have no shell of ions to hide a temperate surface behind a glowing screen...
This is a first novel by a playwright with a considerable off-Broadway reception (The Prodigal, Gallows Humor) and a recent on-Broadway flop (Lorenzo) to his credit. In it, Richardson plays hide-and-seek with the questions of freedom, reality and life's purpose. Despite the author's overfondness for obscure-and sometimes misspelled-words, such as lachrymator, ecdysize, catasta, edacious and vibrissae,* Filmore's wide-eyed discovery that stone walls do not a prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor. When his rollicking stay behind bars is ended by an untimely parole...