Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusion to his Charles Eliot Norton lectures, Pier Luigi Nervi last night looked into the future to a "vast and spacious architecture" constructed a strict obedience to physical law while maintaining an intrinsic appeal to man's aesthetic sense...
...architecture by static law will run the risk of becoming "fatal monotony." "Binding as technical demands may be," he declared, there always remains a margin of freedom sufficient to show the personality if its creator and, if he be an artist, to flow his work, even in its strict technical obedience, to become a real and true work...
Time to Talk. Many merchants favored negotiations and a possible loosening of the city's strict segregation ordinances. Said the segregationist Birmingham News: "It is time for Birmingham citizens to sit down and talk together." But Connor, running for Governor against popular "Kissin' Jim" Folsom and five other Democrats, is not about to sit down and talk. In retaliation for the boycott, the City Commission cut off city relief payments, most of which go to Negroes; Connor denied a routine permit for a long-planned, house-to-house collection for Miles's rundown library...
...business. Michael, 16, whom Chaplin regards as his artistic heir, goes to Geneva's International School; he speaks very little, and has the brooding look of Eugene O'Neill. Little Eugene Chaplin, 8, is known as Tadpole and is always talking, always in trouble. Charlie is a strict disciplinarian, and all seven children have felt the palm of his hand. They are amiable and well-behaved - not one sophisticated international brat in the group...
...seminary reflected the ortho doxy of its early teachers. The first professor hired, Dr. Archibald Alexander, was a strict, commonsensical Calvinist who believed that God's truth in the Bible was like a seal and "the human heart was like wax that receives the imprint of the seal." Another early teacher, Samuel Miller, endlessly lectured students on such matters of etiquette as why they should not spit tobacco juice on the carpet. "I have known a few tobacco chewers in whom this habit had reached such a degree of concentrated virulence," he wrote, "that they even compelled persons...