Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most difficult problems do not occur in the search for form," Aalto says, "but rather in the attempt to create forms that are based on real human values." The bold, simple form of the Paimio sanatorium thrust Aalto into the vanguard of European functionalism in the 1930s. But that straightforwardness gradually changed as he won other commissions for everything from furniture to factories to whole towns, mostly in Finland. Over the years, his buildings have grown ever more intricate and idiosyncratic, taking odd, seemingly arbitrary shapes. But their genesis-profound thoughtfulness leavened by the free play of emotion-has never...
...have Camillo substitute the humdrum word "undress" in discase thee instantly." "Discase " is a gem of a word (Shakespeare would use it again in The Tempest). Once you start this tinkering, where do you stop? The Winter's Tale has quite a number of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere of obsolete or arcane terms that occur nowhere else in Shakespeare--such as neb, hoxes, callet, losel, pugging, dibble, caddises, barne, and pettitoes. Are these to be thrown out too? Let audiences do their homework, or suffer the consequences. (Some years back, Robert Graves announced that he was preparing...
...uncontrolled and sells at about $13. The President's new bill would gradually lift the controls on old oil over a 39-month period. Each month more oil would be decontrolled, but the schedule is so set up that the biggest impact on prices would not occur until after the November 1976 elections. The immediate effect on an economy recovering from inflationary recession would be minimal; by White House estimate, prices of gasoline and other petroleum products would rise a mere half-cent to a penny per gallon this year...
...copy it...Eventually I became fascinated with the man himself, his internal contradictions as a man and artist...His failure to overcome the personal problems that led to his death...I was also interested in the possibility that--at least for theatrical purposes--past, present, and future could all occur simultaneously. This possibility merged with my musings about Hemingway and the form of the play resulted...
...split does occur, it is uncertain how many would leave the Missouri Synod. Tietjen predicts that more than 1,500 congregations will depart. Others put the figure much lower, at a maximum of 500 congregations encompassing some 250,000 members. Whatever happens, the moderates themselves reject the word schism...