Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full psychiatrist but a psychiatric social worker or, as Martin put it, a shrink-trainee (which sounded to him like some kind of seafood dish, but he didn't pursue the comparison any further.) Anyway, she told Martin's parents and Martin that he wasn't really in bad shape (mind you, she was only a trainee) and that all he needed was to take a more positive approach to things, and that everything would turn out fine...
...Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1) 2. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (2) 3. The Making of the President '68, White (3) 4. Jennie, Martin (5) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (4) 6. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (6) 7. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (8) 8. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(10) 9. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (7) 10. My Turn at Bat, Williams
According to legend, the church was built by a local craftsman named Nestor in 1714. The master builder used not a single nail, but so precisely slotted the beams and joists that the structure has stood without reinforcement for 250 years. Upon the traditional octagonal shape, he laid an exuberance of cupolas and onion-shaped domes. The result was a wondrous aberration, a unique folk image of what a house of God should look like. The legend goes that, upon its completion, Nestor declared: "There never has been, is, or ever will be another church like this." So saying...
...that community of skill that in certain ages and places produces an integrated style. An example is Kondopoga's Church of the Assumption, some 30 miles west of Kizhi. Lonely, moving and quietly assertive, the church is a testament to an unknown craftsman's sense of the shape of his landscape, the wideness of his lake, the hostility of the sky, and his craft as a master of wood...
...dome can be seen the divergence of the Russian from the Byzantine model. Finding Byzantium's semispherical dome ill-suited to the heavy snow of the north, the church's original architect replaced it with a bulbous cupola, which eventually developed into the characteristic onion shape. Russian architecture was on its way to finding its own style...