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After Al Jolson got through with it, Gershwin could stop plugging other people's songs. His own style-spirited, harmonically rich, melodically simple but full of pungent surprises-was crystalized in a string of subsequent hit songs (Somebody Loves Me, Stairway to Paradise, The Man I Love) and Broadway musicals (Lady, Be Good!, Strike Up the Band, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, Of Thee I Sing). By his late 20s, when Gershwin sought (unsuccessfully) to take some composing lessons from Maurice Ravel, the popular question was why he would want to be an imitation Ravel when he was already...
...plant. When they reached the middle of the bridge, they noticed that Pinkerton detectives were climbing up stairs at the plant end of the overpass to stop them. They quickly turned around, only to discover that Pinkertons were also ready to meet them at the parking lot stairway. The union busting detectives rushed the organizers, pulled their coats over their heads, and worked them over as only Pinkertons could...
...Pusey Library's design does not account for the tremendous flow of pedestrian traffic between the Union and the Yard. The single stairway is grossly inadequate for this purpose. Stuvvins's final proposal is at best mediocre and is in fact analagous to draining the IAB pool and installing study carrels there. (Who is to say that a student shouldn't plunge into his work anyway?) The moat surrounding the library clearly characterizes the plan as a last-ditch attempt to artificially improve upon an area best preserved in its natural state. Once the library is completed, how many will...
After meeting with architects and University officials yesterday, Bok chose a final location for the library's entry and main stairway, Robert R. Walsh '65, assistant University Librarian for Building Planning, said yesterday...
...spend half his life aspiring to the executive suite, wind up commanding a billion-dollar corporation and dazzle Wall Street with his managerial wizardry. But if for some reason he should lose his job, he often finds that the stairway leading down from the room at the top can be nearly as steep as the one going...