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...downstairs part will serve as a museum for Rivera's pre-Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Hence to offer the Freshman as advice the traditional "two handshakes with a signature sandwiched in between" is to short-change him, and it frequently jeopardizes the success of his career at the College. Upperclassmen, too are not familiar with all the nooks and crannies that represent the labyrinth that is Harvard. They too often miss out on opportunities because of lack of information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Light On Advising | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

...They," in this case, referred to the vast labyrinth in the basement of Kirkland House, from whence come around 6300 meals each day, but where grinding up jockeys--or even horses for that matter--has certainly never been practiced. Today, the College Dining Halls Unit supplies bakery goods for the entire University, feeds Kirkland, Eliot, Winthrop, Lowell, and Leverett and operates the Eliot House Grill on the side. It employs 269 persons every day including Sundays and holidays. And on food alone, for its five Houses, the Unit spends each week approximately...

Author: By E. P. H., | Title: Central Kitchen: all that meat and potatoes too | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

...Israel synagogue. Now Tiferet Israel resembles a Dali-like nightmare with gaping walls and smashed dome. House after house is similarly blown down or crushed in by explosives. But the Jews are still holding on despite their hopeless position. The main thing in the Jews' favor is a labyrinth of underground passages through which they move from house to house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: On the Move | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Clean Sweep. In 1938, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice set out to end such tie-in sales. It filed suit against Paramount, Loew's Inc.(M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Independents' Day | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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