Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story should have said directly that 'the State Department said,' if that is the fact. If that is not the fact, the A.P. should not give its great facilities to some 'officials' merely expressing their own views and not the formalized, quoted opinion of the government itself...
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...building came in so far below estimate that the university doubled its order), the four-sided grille had an overpowering monotony, a fact Stone now acknowledges. He plans to re-study the top of the building, particularly he screen above the roof. No such reservations cloud Stone's opinion of the house resigned on ancient classical lines around central court, or atrium, which he completed this month (with Interior Designer ?. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings) for Bruno and "Josephine Graf in Dallas, Texas...
Outside Stone's office, opinion is sharply divided on his direct challenge to the glass façade. The principal question: Will the grille become a cliche and a cover for bad architecture? Says Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson: "The New Delhi embassy? How could I help but love it? It's a jewel! But architecture is more than putting up drapes in front of a house to hide it." Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME Cover, July 2, 1956) feels that the New Delhi embassy "marks a new turning point toward stateliness and dignity," but also thinks that "the best...
...appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate; of a heart attack; in Washington. In 1930, after his nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract (wherein new employees promise their employers in writing that they will not join a union). Parker explained that he was merely "following the law as laid down by the Supreme Court. I had no latitude of discretion in expressing views...