Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reviewer Daniel J. Boorstin '34, professor of history at the University of Chicago, described the collection of Pusey's speeches as a "desert of cliches" in which "the only relief is an occasional oasis of provincialism...
...wishes to the American people "for their well-being and further progress, and also to express my hope that normal friendly relations marked by stability will prevail." With that, the gangplank was raised, the Rotterdam tooted goodbye, the pickets lowered their standards, and the U.S. State Department sighed with relief...
Because of the fine detail of the relief in which the figures are depicted, the monument is regarded as rivaling the fines Greek sculptures of the sixth century...
...nothing but two bowls of consommé for dinner. His personal physicians discovered that he was running a slight fever (100.2°), diagnosed it as a mild case of influenza. His scheduled trip to Yosemite National Park and San Fran cisco was canceled, which probably came as a relief to Administration officials who were worried about demonstrations. Disneyland was not on Tito's itinerary to begin with...
...hall seemed acoustically excellent as Von Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...