Word: nissen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ELSE SONNE NISSEN Iron Mountain, Mich...
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From then on, Niemeyer was established in the hearts of his countrymen. At Pampulha, he designed a group of curving, glass-walled structures (yacht club, casino, restaurant). There he also built a Nissen-hut type of church so strange in design that the Roman Catholic arch bishop refused to consecrate it (TIME...
...liked by nobody. Oxford is now a crowded place, with 7,000 enrolled-2,000 more than in prewar days. The old college suite of bedroom and sitting room, with a servant for every "staircase," has given way to the shared austerity of a frequently servantless "bed-sitting-room." Nissen huts (British version of Quonset huts) squat in the quads; the students roam far & wide in search of "diggings" (off-campus rooms) in increasingly industrial Oxford town...
Here again Olivier helped out Shakespeare. Shakespeare gave to a cynical soldier the great speech: But if the cause be not good, etc. Olivier puts it in the mouth of a slow-minded country boy (Brian Nissen). The boy's complete lack of cynicism, his youth, his eyes bright with sleepless danger, the peasant patience of his delivery, and his Devon repetition of the tolled word die as doy, lift this wonderful expression of common humanity caught in human war level with the greatness of the King...