Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judges. Summing up the pressures brought against him by Cohn on Schine's behalf, Adams said: "If you would pile together all of the abuse that I had from all the other members of Congress and all of the other congressional employees over a period of five years, it would not compare to the abuse that I took over this situation...
Such big Eastern firms as Ebasco, Raymond Concrete Pile, Merritt-Chapman & Scott, Stone & Webster are building air bases in France and Spain, powerhouses in Greece, a dam in Japan, electric plants in Bombay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, oil refineries in England, Italy, and Australia, paper mills for Israel, roads through the Belgian Congo, and a new harbor at Auckland...
Much of the original material for King of Hearts came from Mrs. Eleanor Brooke, a Washington, D.C. housewife, who, as Jean had been earlier, was a graduate student in Walter Kerr's drama class at Washington's Catholic University in 1948. Mrs. Brooke collected a vast pile of research and turned it into a lengthy character sketch of an egomaniac. Working on and off in her mobile office, Jean invented additional characters and material and built the play in six months...
...with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another, one tension is resolved by another, and the general excitement lasts even through the quieter music that follows...
Spectacular Fireworks. Dumont's favorite subject was cathedrals, and his favorite cathedral was the magnificent Gothic pile in his home town of Rouen. He painted Rouen Cathedral in all lights, seasons and moods. His cathedrals are done in somber but pleasant colors, applied thickly in the manner of Dumont's more famous fellow sufferer, Vincent Van Gogh (opposite). His scenes of Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also...