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Word: ionics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before any players appear on the Festival stage, the audience is confronted by balance in the form of Ed Wittstein's setting. In upstage center stands an imposing depressed segmental arch suggestive of some oversize fireplace. Its Ionic flanking columns hold up a gabled brick wall, with a set of cyma recta consoles supporting a three-arch window that sheds lambent light through its variegated diamond panes. Some distance to the right and left of this centerpiece are placed smaller diagonal arched doorways. When the garden scenes arrive, a section of brick wall and a bench roll in symmetrically...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Much Ado About Nothing' Brightly Revived | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

Watson frequently reiterates this obsessive need to beat out Pauling. He furthermore creates the distinct impression that he and Francis Crick are scientifically inferior to Pauling--that they are fighting an uphill battle against an acknowledged champion. At one point, they realize that some problems in ionic bonding are crucial roadblocks to their attempt to solve the structure...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: J. D. Watson and the Process of Science | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...McClelland's wit can be as pure a statement made by line, with line and on the subject of line as Steinberg's. Only he would put a typically cartoon-sketched "California Cheeseburger" on top of a semi-Ionic column, carefully drafted in the most accurate "Architect's Projection" style...

Author: By Deborah R. Warhoff, | Title: McClelland | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

OXFORD, MISS.--Bullet holes still mar the tall Ionic columns in front of the Lyceum building at Ole Miss. The six white pillars have been repainted since the 1962 riot, but many of the scars are still plainly visible...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Ole Miss Begins Its Slow Slide Backwards Into the Security of the Comfortable Past | 12/8/1966 | See Source »

...stylized men, alternating with Ionic columns, are more monumental than his earlier portraits. The explanation may simply be that, as associate professor of art at Yale, Johnson now abides in the groves of academe. But as a teacher he still tries to make his stu dents aware of the action of painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Combining Man & the Monument | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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