Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forum, described by one panel member as a "mutual groping," revealed no definite policy decisions on the administration of the Loeb Center. Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., architect of the theatre, reviewed briefly the features of the building, explaining its adaptability to proscenium, Elizabethan, and full-round productions...
...round of applause is in order for Boris Chaliapin for his cover. Never has there been a lexical or pictorial representation of degradation of human dignity of such impact as his composition of the ant colony of human beings...
...whistle-stop tour. Tall, strapping General Mohammed Ayub Khan, 52, dressed in open shirt and slacks, would lean from the doorway of his private railroad car and call: "How are you? How are the crops?" The village leader answered: "We are in perfect peace through your kindness." Others crowded round to beg Ayub to save them from a distasteful return of "democracy and politicians...
...wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level base board for reference. Wright replied that the old rectilinear frame of reference was "a coffin for the spirit" and admonished them to wait...
Alexander himself is Morgan Guaranty's chief bird dog. He moves through a constant round of meetings, receptions and official dinners with bankers, ambassadors, corporate presidents. He is constantly on the alert for the clue that will tell him where to find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer...