Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheik Abdullah Tariki, 40, and Sheik Hafiz Wahba, 69, were elected directors of the Arabian American Oil Co., first Saudi Arabians to go on the board. Aramco had agreed five years ago to add Saudis to the board, but they did not seem interested until Tariki began his campaign for more say in running the company (TIME, April 27). Tariki, who holds a master's degree in oil engineering from the University of Texas, has steadily campaigned for a bigger cut in Aramco's profits. He wants to force it to become an integrated company in hopes...
Expatriate Beckett (he lives in France) has found a near poetic way of expressing his terrible vision, a style that is by turns irritatingly dense and craftily simple. And he states and restates his nightmare with a relentlessness that makes most writers seem uncertain of their way. Yet the vision is too ghastly to be borne in the long run, and with Watt, Author Beckett has conjured it up about as many times as most readers will be able to stand. If Godot was really Beckett's way of saying God, perhaps the only solution...
Both books may have an odd effect on readers, for they are set in the era before the modern welfare state-capitalist or socialist-encroached on the life of the individual. Whatever the merit of the "good old days," these stories seem to refute the notion that they were happier. In tale after tale, the plots turn on the tragedies of men and women shrugged off by society and left to the mercy of God and the charity of strangers...
Fashion today has almost come to the point where it easily accepts Art Nouveau furnishings. In fact, Nouveau pieces often seem so modern that one finds it hard to believe that they were modish sixty years ago. The swatches of material designed by Richard Riemerschmid would fit wonderfully in a modern interior. The chair and three-legged table by Hector Guimard, the leader of the Parisian branch of the international Art Nouveau movement, combine tasteful flourishes with beautifully smooth wood surfaces and simple, elegant forms. In an elaborate Guimard picture frame, though, the typical Nouveau tendency towards overdecoration is manifest...
...would seem that the last vestige of capriciousness and malpractice in Cambridge has slipped away without anyone noticing. The City Council could threaten students with no more than the loss of pinball machines. In the Administration, every gear seems well-oiled, every cog in place: from course reduction to the Program for Harvard College, the flaws are harder to detect, harder to remove. Even the commuters seem to be happy with their lot. There is, as yet, no definite program for next year's non-honors juniors, the Social Sciences have been handing out their usual paucity of Summas...