Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a towering, plastic figure on the left. The watcher in the doorway has been raised in ominous emphasis by reducing him to black silhouette. The dwarf has become a Charlie Brown cartoon, and the mastiff transformed into Picasso's own dachshund. The mysterious, airy space of the room's depth has been chopped into emphatic fragments by the invented windows on the right...
...Chairman Robert Lowell Moore, 62, ever since the two left Harvard ('18), the Matson deal was the biggest of a year in which they have acquired eight hotels. There are now 52 Sheraton hotels, and more are abuilding. Early next year Sheraton will open a $12 million, 561-room hotel in Dallas and a $3,500,000, 190-room unit in Binghamton, N.Y. Due to open later: new Sheratons in Baltimore, New Haven, Conn. and Portland...
...Compton (enrollment: 4,800) taking a first-year psychology course need never face a flesh-and-blood lecturer, and 1,099 students in freshman algebra and English courses are film-fed most of the time. Their education is largely seen to by a woman worker in a central control room, who feeds the proper reels into the correct machines, and a faculty-member monitor, who patrols four TV theaters at a time, sees that sets work right and that classes do not become disorderly. Students with questions to ask may make appointments with instructors...
...that the study of Latin is a training for the muscles of the mind." But the Daily Mirror's Cassandra argued that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have been carrying around with me in the lumber room of my mind for 40 years. Like the geese of Strasbourg, I was force fed . . . and I still can't unlearn to talk to a table or a squad of tables, addressing them correctly in Latin, saying: 'O tables . . .' It's about time the tables...
PART OF A LONG STORY, by Agnes Boulton. Eugene O'Neill's second wife describes just a year and a half of her life with genius, but she makes it memorable. Great drunken sprees were wedged between great plays, and melodrama was always just around the living-room door...