Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yamasaki took advantage of a long convalescence to go to Japan. He was captivated by what he saw in its architecture: the interplay of light and shadow, the union of building and garden. He came back to cast a jaundiced eye on the serried ranks of glass boxes rising along the main streets of Manhattan and other major cities. "Our life gives promise of being spent in look-alike houses, look-alike automobiles and look-alike buildings," he warned his fellow architects...
Gnoli's strength is double-edged: he knows how to represent what he sees sharply and solidly; also he knows how to design. Light and darkness, tension and repose, surface textures and deep space all interplay with the stories his pictures tell...
...peace treaty, Russia's cynicism was justified. Khrushchev wanted only a summit: Eisenhower agreed that Khrushchev ''is the only man who has ... the authority to negotiate." The proxies, their homework done, gathered in Geneva before a thousand staring cameras, with no high hopes. The very first interplay-over tables round or square, over Germans at the table or beside it (see below)-was the kind of picayune fuss that discredits the whole practice of diplomacy. The quick-witted journalists surrounding the closed room, flitting from one briefing to another, comparing notes, were agreed on one thing: that...
...Department of Agriculture in Washington, Means published a study of price trends in the Depression to which he gave the title: "Industrial Prices and Their Relative Inflexibility." In it Means said that the classical Adam Smith laissez-faire free market, in which prices are set by a constant interplay of supply and demand, did not exist. In place of Smith's market-price theory, Means offered his administered-price theory. Said he: "An administered price is a price set by someone, usually a producer or a seller, and kept constant for a period of time and for a series...
...Lycee Moliere and the Sorbonne, Paris, and Sommerville College, Oxford. She received her degree in "PP and E" (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Her book titles reflect her interest; among her published works are The West at Bay (1948), Policy for the West (1951), Faith and Freedom (1954), and Interplay of East and West...