Word: plumbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andreyev's drama when Sessions was 26, and cast as an orchestral suite five years later. A dissonant, vigorous work full of shrilly chattering string passages and raucously braying brasses, it gives the effect, as do many of Sessions' works, of the familiar tilted intriguingly out of plumb. Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated note of despair; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956), whose stabbing, fragmented salvos of sound hit the listener like an icy shower...
Becket, 58, has won the title "The Businessman's Architect" by giving businessmen what they want and need in buildings, paying close attention to the balance books as well as the plumb lines. So successful is the formula that his Welton Becket & Associates is the world's largest singly owned architectural and engineering firm...
...fate to live and strive in Huey's shadow. It was a striving founded on Earl's passionate conviction that he was twice the man Huey was-and, ironically, he was, save for the vital inability to match Huey's inner fire, his failure to plumb the imagination of Louisianians with Huey's black magic...
...Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which encompasses the supposed sites of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The thousands of pilgrims who seek it out every year find the church little more than a musty ruin. The southern façade is some 6 in. out of plumb, held up by a cat's cradle of iron shorings erected by the British in 1935. Under the crumbling vaulting of the south transept, a scaffold has been put up to protect tourists from falling masonry. The facing of Christ's tomb itself is crumbling; large stones fall from...
...find ways to eliminate such troubles, mental health programs headed by full-or part-time psychiatrists are operated by such companies as Eastman Kodak, Metropolitan Life Insurance, International Business Machines, Du Pont, New York Telephone Co. and American Cyanamid. Hundreds of other companies hire consulting psychologists to plumb their workers' difficulties. The number is still small compared with the total of corporations-partly because highly paid psychiatrists are difficult to attract to industry-but it is growing. U.S. Steel is about to set up a fulltime program, "as a natural step in the development of a medical program...