Word: shaped
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...deadlock effectively prevented federal aid to education, although since World War II exceptions began to appear-first in public bus service, then in publicly-paid-for milk for parochial schools. When the Johnson Administration in 1965 devised a bill under which parochial schools did receive federal aid-in the shape of textbooks and many other classroom facilities-there was no major Protestant opposition. And there may be little objection to more direct aid for parochial schools in the future. But some rearguard battles are being waged. New York State, which is currently rewriting its constitution, is witnessing a hassle about...
Crown of Thorns. No city in the world is quite like Brasilia, the seven-year-old vision of tomorrow carved out of the wilderness. Its unfinished cathedral is designed in the shape of a gigantic crown of concrete thorns. Its Congress building looks like a huge cup and saucer. Its population areas are laid out in Orwellian modules, with all the foreign-ministry officials living here, the bank employees there, the military officers over there. Artificially created to open up the frontier and shift the country's balance westward, Brasilia was long considered the "mad city" that Ku-bitschek...
Intimate Shane. Inside its drum shape, Becket's Taper Forum boasts a thrust stage surrounded by a semicircle of seats banking gracefully upward for 14 rows. The farthest spectator is just barely 16 yards from the action and the sound is superior. Considering its impressive size, the Ahmanson Theater is also remarkably intimate; as in the trail-blazing Chandler Pavilion, Architect Becket has replaced the traditional shoe-box-shaped auditorium with an almost perfect square. The proscenium is as wide and as high as the walls and ceilings, the stage semithrust...
...part, Stouffer was ready for a merger. Though outwardly in strong shape, with 46 restaurants and six motor inns as well as its food-processing, the company has recently been having trouble keeping earnings up to snuff. As of January 31, six-month earnings were off $140,000 from the same period last year on sales of $43 million. Part of the problem, explains 65-year-old Vernon Stouffer, who parlayed his mother's recipes into millions, is cost control. "Rents and investments have grown tremendously, and higher salaries in other industries make executives difficult to obtain." Litton...
...same time, we think that the next qualitative escalation and intensification of the war will shape the politics of this country in a way that not only will require an even greater commitment from those who oppose the war but, indeed will affect the very possibility of our continuing the work we consider most important...