Word: pyramids
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...more prosaically, the man who bequeathed his thrillers and shockers to Harvard--was George Andrew Reisner '89, an eminent: Egyptologist who won fame by "solving the mystery of the Sphinx." (He showed that its head is a portrait of Chephren, a fourth-century Pharaoh who built the second Pyramid.) Born Nov.5, 1867, in Indianapolis, Reisner was graduated from the College summa cumlaude and then earned a Ph.D. here in Semitic Languages...
...angel trumpeting the word "Repent." Fastened to the canvas is a curved sports-car horn, and by squeezing the large rubber bulb that honks it, a gallerygoer can bellow an unrepentent riposte full of good Bronx cheer. Independence Day puts a tiny Statue of Liberty atop a large black pyramid. When the switch is turned on, Miss Liberty's torch blinks redly, and an ingeniously spliced tape combines the distorted voice of Mae West with electronic sounds that convey a mounting hysteria of urban cacophony...
...SYMPHONY OF PSALMS (Columbia). "God must not be praised in fast, forte music," Stravinsky once declared, and he holds to deliberate tempos as he conducts the CBC Symphony and the Festival Singers of Toronto in his imposing setting for Psalms 150 and 40. In notes on the upside-down pyramid of fugues and other components of this elaborate musical structure he created in 1930, he explains: "One hopes to worship God with a little...
Louis Kahn and Sculptor Isamu Noguchi have produced a design for a $1,000,000 playground to be carved out of Riverside Park. Proposed as a memorial to the late Philanthropist Adele R. Levy, the layout includes a grass-covered amphitheater, a pyramid and some handsome free-form sculptures designed to tempt the clambering young. But by the time the park engineers, the evaluators, the experts and the mayor are through with the plans, many a moppet may well have hair gone grey at the temples...
...sunshine merchants. When everyone is sufficiently depressed, publishers of inspirational texts will find a renewed market for books disproving hollowness on the ground that Everything Is Stuffed with Meaning. Meanwhile, in the hollow or waning-moon part of the cycle, we have had The Waste Makers, The Pyramid Climbers, The Brain Pickers, The Naked Society, and that inevitable-but-yet-unwritten examination of the lunch habits of advertising men, Breath in the Afternoon. Now, with no moon in sight, the co-author of The Split-Level Trap has written The Weekenders...