Word: spaciousness
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...weeks after arriving at Harvard in the fall of 1954, I established a late afternoon ritual for myself which I followed as faithfully as I could for the remainder for that year. My three roommates and I shared a "quad" at the top of Holworthy Hall. It had a spacious living room, well-lighted by two large windows that overlooked the Yard. I had arranged my desk and bookcase by the corner beside one of those windows. There, late every afternoon, with my roommates scattered to Lamont or some other sanctuary, I sat with my notebook, my Latin lexicon...
...legislation is likely to gain momentum from the announcement just over a week ago that Congress will have to start worrying about providing for the upkeep of a spacious Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, which has finally found a home in San Clemente, Calif. An 80,000-sq.-ft. building, including a museum, is planned on a 13-acre, $6.5 million site in the city where Nixon had his Western White House. It will join the libraries and museums of seven other Presidents, built with private funds but staffed and maintained by the Government at a cost of $14.9 million...
...history, which can only be seen through its older structures. If you eradicate that which relates to an urban center's past, such as its old buildings, you destroy its personality. A city like Rome is beautiful not for its efficiency or cleanliness but for its diversity. Spacious streets, blank walls and giant blocks of steel and concrete may make a pleasing design on paper, but in reality they create a desert of human expression. Marcello Pense Delray Beach...
...indefatigably worked himself out of a deep hole. At one time he owed heavy back taxes and $250,000 to his agent; his extravagant personal life had produced skyrocketing bills for alimony and child support. He sold off parts of his Brooklyn Heights brownstone, gradually marooning himself on its spacious fourth floor. A house in Provincetown, Mass., was sold at an Internal Revenue Service auction. He interrupted his work on Ancient Evenings to write books for quick money. One paid an unexpected dividend: The Executioner's Song, his account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore...
This is a radiant, loving and zestfully humorous play about subjects that darken the mind with icy forebodings. It concerns growing old and getting senile, leaving a spacious ancestral home and entering the anteroom of death...