Word: vastness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rumors swirled around his desert kingdom, King Saud sulked in seclusion in the private quarters of his vast, chandelier-festooned palace at Riyadh. He stopped presiding over the grand luncheons and dinners served daily in the palace dining hall to visitors and hangers-on. The loudspeakers, which customarily bellow the latest news during mealtimes, were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members...
...color pages). Before it, workmen are completing the paving, preparing a 230-ft.-long reflecting pool to receive its fountains. Electricians are adjusting the lights that will shine on the 130 Belgian apple trees due to burst into bloom at about the day the fair opens. Nearly as vast as the width of Rome's ancient Colosseum, which inspired it, combining dignity, symmetry and an inviting holiday glitter, the pavilion is the finest showcase the U.S. has built abroad at a major world's fair. Spectacular in its daring engineering and inspired in its architecture, it is already...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, designed in 1937-38 (completed in 1939) with the late Philip L. Goodwin, one of the earliest U.S. buildings constructed in the International Style. Conceived as a luminous rectangle, incorporating vast, flexible loft space for exhibitions, and an inviting, open ground floor, it is fronted by a wall of insulated glass to give the interior an alabaster glow. Stone calls it "a simple, vivid, workable building...
...Nothing is better fun for the nonscholarly reader than Graves's vast sneer at the scholarly mind, given at a Yale lecture. In this mock-solemn legpull, Graves gravely gives a pathologicon of pedants' diseases. Sample: cacography,i.e., bad writing, a scholarly affliction that leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...
Those Eyes See." The scene is a corner of a vast circus tent, where there is a platform for a sideshow. ("Clothes that have the look of vestments of many churches and times have been left about.") Enter Mr. Zuss and Nickles, actors once, now a couple of old circus vendors in white caps and jackets, Mr. Zuss selling balloons, Nickles selling popcorn...