Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Imperial Symposium...
...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
...faculty: Producers Oscar Hammerstein and Brock Pemberton, Director Margaret Webster, Choreographers Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins, Designer Donald Oenslager, Theatrical Pressagent Richard Maney, CBS's Worthington Miner, some 100 other theater and radio names. Most of them would take part in the most popular course: the theater symposium, a big bull session designed to brief students on developments in their business during the last four years...
Howard Lindsay, co-dramatizer of Life with Father, made a touching contribution to a New York Times symposium of filial memories on Father's Day. "Mother spent ten years trying to get the truth out of Father," recalled Lindsay, "then gave up and left...
...fascinating question was put last week to eight experts by Harvard's President Scientist James B. Conant. The experts, gathered for an atomic-energy symposium at the National Association of Manufacturers Congress in Manhattan (see BUSINESS), had answers almost as varied as any eight men-in-the-street...