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Before an overflow crowd at the VAC, the eminent English author spelled out his theory of "The Origin of Forms in Art." Form in art is shape imparted by human action, but unlike shape, he maintained, it has an esthetic connotation...
...Milwaukee and elsewhere, Wallace's reception was less than exuberant. In Oshkosh he was greeted by a jeering band of 400 college students. He endured rough questioning at a meeting with 17 Protestant clergymen. An overflow crowd of 2,000 curiosity-seekers jammed the civic auditorium to hear him preach against the civil rights bill-and to raise placards reading "Go Home, Bigot" and "Keep Your Dogs in Birmingham...
...eyed TV lights glared down at the overflow of spectators lining the marble walls. Photographers jostled and cursed as they tried to get close to Baker, who himself had some difficulty squeezing through to the witness table. Bobby Baker grinned, waved to familiar faces, and, for the moment at least, appeared to be enjoying himself hugely. Finally seated, he extracted a pack of Salems from his coat pocket, laid it carefully alongside the Bible upon which he would soon be sworn in. Next he produced a typewritten sheet of paper and positioned it on the table just...
Over 10,000 children flocked to the 34 Freedom Schools set up for the day by civil rights leaders. Several thousand had to be bused to hastily established "overflow schools," as the 27 original schools were jammed to capacity and spilled over onto the streets...
...House becomes cavernous and impersonal; below it, a House may face unmanageable administrative costs. The Tenth House Committee should aim for a maximum as close to this "ideal" as financial pressures permit. If the Tenth House is designed solely to minimize crowding in the old Houses, the present student overflow would completely fill it, leaving no room for expansion...