Word: pyramidal
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John O'Hara is perhaps the U.S.'s chief social embalmer of manners and morals among the moneyed. His latest novel is a massive pyramid of prose raised over the mummified form of a minor Pharoah of finance named Alfred Eaton. As if by ancient Egyptian custom, Eaton's living tomb is stocked with the appurtenances of his caste and class: tennis rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes, partnership in a Wall Street banking house, two wives, two mistresses...
...underwrite before Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. The news went over big in the Middle East. A pro-Western Beirut newspaper cried approvingly: "The Soviet Union has taken the place of the West on the banks of the Nile to help Nasser at long last to build the Pyramid of the 20th century...
Perhaps too facile, he has whisked off a skyscraper design overnight, took only 15 days to plan Caracas' Museum of Modern Art, a pyramid that will rest upside down atop Bello Monte mountain. "I study the problem, the arc of the sun, the lay of the land," he said. "Then I mull over it for a couple of days. Finally the idea comes." One result of such fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder...
Last week one of Little Rock's leading citizens broke the silence with a brave try. He was Herbert L. Thomas Sr., 59, public-spirited millionaire founder of the First Pyramid Life Insurance Co. of America, who by Arkansas standards is regarded as a sound moderate in race relations. In 1948, while chairman of the University of Arkansas trustees, Thomas got a phone call warning him that a young Negro war veteran was on his way to apply for admission to the law school. He made the decision to let him in and thereby made Arkansas the first...
...first real casualty of the current recession may well be the middle-priced automobile. For years it not only provided transportation for the middle class but was a firm steppingstone on the stratified pyramid of personal material progress. From a Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth, the buyer progressed to a Pontiac, Buick, De Soto or Oldsmobile, all the while hoping for, and perhaps eventually achieving, a Chrysler, Lincoln or Cadillac...