Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Childhood Memories. In his 17 years in office, Kaneko has turned the out-of-the-way, largely agricultural prefecture of Kagawa into an architectural showplace and art center, and he has become ,known far and wide as the "design chiji [governor]." For the Takamatsu library, he brought in Yoshinobu Ashihara, architect for Japan's pavilion at Expo 67. Professor Junzo Yoshimura, original architect of Emperor Hirohito's new palace in Tokyo, managed the restoration of the exquisite Moon-Scooping Pavilion, built by Matsudaira...
...wide-ranging analysis of alienated students-the bored, the unhappy, the apathetic-University of Wisconsin Psychiatrist Seymour L. Halleck told a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit last week: "Smoking marijuana has become almost an emblem of alienation. The alienated student realizes that the use of 'pot' mortifies his parents and enrages authorities." Unable to change a flawed world, the alienated also seek a quick, "autoplastic adjustment" in themselves: "They can create a new inner reality simply by taking a pill or smoking a marijuana cigarette...
...Laurel fluster. If a joke dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color, freeze his face into a blank that shows nothing but eyes and innocence. He is performer and critic, rapping out a whole percussion section of effects...
...Turner, "we have in effect substituted a short antenna carrying a large current for a long antenna carrying a small current." Thus an SIA only a few inches long and weighing only an ounce or two is sufficient for the efficient reception of normal television signals over an extremely wide band in the 100-megacycle range...
...Bunting first announced the restrictions after a Radcliffe-wide referendum had showed that 40 per cent of all Cliffies wished to change the original open-to-all Harvard Hilles policy. At that time, she thought that perhaps morning restrictions would have to be enacted. But, Miss Manzi said yesterday, this measure will not be necessary...