Word: sven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project got under way six years ago in the kind of comedy of confusion that all Frenchmen relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi...
From the Social Register. The men responsible for the American Opera Society's consistent success are Conductor Gamson, 29, and his cousin, Director Allen Sven Oxenburg, 30. When they were both students at the Juilliard School of Music, they developed a passion for Renaissance music, decided it ought to be played as it was originally in the homes of the rich. Founders Gamson and Oxenburg achieved their place in the sun through awnings. "Mother," Gamson explains, "is in awnings-the Port Chester [N.Y.] Shade & Awning Co.-and since they are very expensive awnings only people with money buy them...
...defending champion. In early matches, played on the far reaches of Wimbledon before standing galleries of only a few hundred, he snarled at himself when a shot went astray, grimaced when his booming serve missed by millimeters. Asked one newspaper: "Can Hoad beat the sulks?" Against Sweden's Sven Davidson in the semifinals, Hoad fretted some, but still won in a breeze...
SOUND OF A DISTANT HORN, by Sven Stolpe (301 pp.; Sheed & Ward; $3.95), is within echoing distance of the works of François Mauriac and Graham Greene, in which anguished would-believers are pursued by both hell and heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve...
...Giovanna took her seat and opened her pad, the school's Dean Sven Stelling-Michaud launched into a twelve-minute speech in fast-paced French ("The new member-state of Viet Nam is particularly happy to be able to participate in the work of the World Health Organization . . ."). With scarcely a second's delay, Giovanna read back the speech in Italian. After that a professor delivered another speech...