Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building itself, constructed through the generosity of Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr. '29, has six floors, two of which are entirely occupied by stacks, and now contains approximately 250,000 volumes--100,000 less than it is capable of holding. Any comprehensive description of Houghton's contents is rendered virtually impossible by the extent of the collection. The catalogue of acquisitions reads like a literary Who's Who, covering all the major periods of Western literature...
Since the Charles River Basin and the riverbanks have been developed, with the expenditure of millions of dollars, as a sailing and general recreation area, it would be less than foresighted of the State, the MDC or the City to allow the destruction of this civic asset for a project of a questionable nature. There is still undeveloped land in Cambridge--the Rogers Block, first of the city's Urban redevelopment areas awaits an industrial developer...
...anglichanka is in love with another passenger (Jason Robards Jr.). The major, soulful Russian that he is, swirls his sorrows into a big black cape and goes thundering about the countryside on a big black horse, looking somehow, as Actor Brynner keeps poking about unpleasantly with his riding crop, less and less like a Red Army officer and more and more like a Freudian interpretation of Ivan Skavinsky Skivar. Back in town, the major-hero toasts the heroine in vodka, then chews up the glass as a chaser, superbly indifferent to the blood that dribbles down his chin. Ekh, Tovarish...
Holly Golightly, the charming corn-pone geisha who sheds everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion...
...past three years has broadcast from Moscow for NBC. got the idea for his volume from a weekly radio program in which he answered questions sent in by U.S. listeners. (Sample: Are there chiropractors in the U.S.S.R.? Answer: No, but chiropractic techniques are used.) Like a less history-conscious Gunther. Author Levine ranges over the surface of Soviet life, from shops to prisons, from tractor stations to "stereokino." The book is larded with anecdotes and jokes (see box), which illustrate the Soviet mood...