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...Bawa's impact on Asian architects - Sri Lankan Milroy Perera, Singaporean Mok Wei Wei and many others documented by Robson - is certainly plain to see. All have adapted the basic regionalist Bawa style, which Bawa only loosely outlined. First, he wrote in a 1968 article, "a building must, at the very least, satisfy the needs that gave it birth, both physical and spiritual." Second, it "must be in accord and in sympathy with the ambience [of its setting]." And "there must be a knowledgeable and true use of the materials with which you build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord of the Jungle | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

...Monnen, becomes Pinafore's handsome young hero, Ralph Rackstraw. Crowley assumes another leadership position as the ship's Captain Corcoran, and a newcomer to the evening's spectacle, Sebastian Knowles, plays the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. All three men, along with Craig Bierko as Dick Deadeye and Jo Milroy as Little Buttercup, give the evening's most superb performances. Crowley successively displays the Captain's frustrations in trying to convince his daughter Josephine (Nancy Fatzick) to marry Sir Joseph. Countering the Captain's well-meaning intentions, the lowly seaman hero Ralph Rackstraw falls passionately in love with Josephine. Monnen plays...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Trial and Tribulation | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

...Buttercup, Milroy exhibits the strongest female voice, with her resounding alto in the famous song, "Sweet Little Buttercup." Other successful numbers include Sir Joseph's description of his rise to the first admiralty of the navy--accompanied by his sister, cousins, and his aunts--and the Captain and Deadeye dust, "Merry Maid and the Tar," which goes into encore verses...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Trial and Tribulation | 4/20/1983 | See Source »

Last winter a group of Cornell students joined Mohr in a thorough exploration of the bat caves in Center and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania. The limestone ridges there are honeycombed with small caves, but Aitken's Cave, near Milroy, is the most accessible. All banded bats were found in the same cave as in previous years. Even bats that had been carried off and released far away were back again. Only once did Mohr find an intruder: this stray bat's own cave had been sealed by a rockfall during the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home-Loving Bats | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...record for the 200-yard relay. Six members of last year's champion team are back in college, including E. B. Binney, Jr., holder of the intercollegiate record of 25 seconds for the 50-yard swim. The other university swimmers who have returned are Captain J. Hincks, W, H. Milroy, H. Hopkins, E. H. Bradley and D. Tyler. In addition L. P. Thurston and J. H. McHenry have returned to college. Thurston is an Hawaiian who was interscholastic champion while he was at Lawrenceville Academy. He was captain of the 1921 team but since then has been in war service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPECT ROSY TANK SEASON AS 65 ELI MERMEN REPORT | 1/5/1920 | See Source »

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