Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welter of confusion, inertia, committee meetings and high-minded oratory, three propositions last week seemed to be taking shape...
...trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized New Jersey's Spicer Manufacturing Co., maker of the first successful universal joint for autos. By the time Spicer was renamed Dana Corp. in 1946, it was a Toledo-based complex of five thriving auto-parts companies. Net sales last year: $168.5 million...
...fine control of the resources of an orchestra. The orchestral song based on a death in wartime is stunning and gripping in its controlled hysteria. The H.R.O. and Mr. Senturia acquitted themselves well as they put the often unrelated elements of Mr. Cutler's score into shape. The soloists, Jenneke Barton and Thomas Beveridge, kept on pitch throughout and negotiated their at times pointlessly demanding music with skill...
...sell it, finds he cannot, and is caught when he returns the machine. Horrified, his father takes him to the police station "to teach him a lesson." The children's court sends him to an "observation center" in the country, where young offenders are literally knocked into shape. His mother visits him only to tell him that he can never come back home. "Your father . . . has lost his job because of you . . . and is completely disinterested in your fate...
...Robbe-Grillet cheerfully invents a greater fault. Obsessed by the reality of objects, he describes them endlessly, and then repeats his descriptions-a column that casts a shadow, a squashed centipede, the location of a window, of a garden. In one maddening three-page section, he explains carefully the shape of the banana fields, the number of rows in each field, how many trees stand in each row. Such writing is not merely capricious; the looming fact of the plantation's physical existence is established-for whatever readers remain. Lost among the bananas and a time sequence that flickers...