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Freckled, red-haired Tom Jefferson was originally tutored, along with his older sisters and Randolph cousins, in a one-room building on the Randolph estate. When he was nine, he began studying Greek, Latin and French, and at 14 he luckily fell under the tutelage of an excellent classicist, the Reverend James Maury. Even at that early age, this somewhat aloof intellectual was what he himself calls "a hard student," and his long hours and rigid selfdiscipline are legendary among his friends. Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen...
Most of the other River Houses, although originally built to include senior singles, have since decided to eliminate this housing option. The Quad Houses were designed to contain mainly one-room singles and doubles...
Kolzak's powerful stage direction compensates for the flaws of his overambitious update. Naturalistic acting undercuts the philosophical pronouncements of each character, rescuing the production from pomposity or soap-opera sentimentality. David Moore's ultra-modern set is a nice consequence of this update; the usual drawback of a one-room set--visual boredom--is offset by diverse and dramatic lighting by Chris Stone and Ginger Thomson...
Xerox, it must be noted at the outset, is a trademark of the Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn. The word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after...
There is a set of chopsticks used by Richard Nixon in China, a souvenir can of caviar from Russia, a bronze bust of the former President and a full display of cufflinks, matchboxes, pens and playing cards from his years in the White House. All are part of a one-room minimuseum opened on Nixon's 63rd birthday last week at the San Clemente Inn, near his California home. "Not everyone approves, but every day people thank me for doing it," said the inn's owner, Paul Presley, adding that the former President had given his blessing...