Word: symposium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said that when he tried to organize a symposium on AIDS at the Boston Harvard Club, only 79 people came although 500 invitations were sent...
...disagree with the consensus in your "60-Second Symposium" on how to respond to a pie in the face [NOTEBOOK, June 12]. I commend Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman for the presence of mind to deprive the self-righteous jerk with the pie the satisfaction of a hit. What she deserved was a left jab followed by a straight right to the nose. Our becoming so incredibly civilized is exactly what has encouraged the anarchic behavior exemplified by pie-wielding adolescents. RIP THOMAS Cleburne, Texas...
...both intellectually respectable and popular, not just populist, a balancing act that makes his tilted towers look easy. Richard Meier is the great American architect whose stately modernist buildings, most of them in a white so ideal it could be used for the table settings at Plato's Symposium, are the very opposite of Gehry's Baroque tumblings. Yet even Meier is happy about the way Bilbao has made architecture "part of public discussion again. All of a sudden people will say, 'This is architecture. It is not just building...
...drag my friend to the undergraduate research symposium until we saw my mom, and then we snuck out," Skrodzki says...
This weekend, in the first annual National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science, prominent women scientists argued that discrimination was present not only in statistics, but also in the attitudes of their male colleagues...