Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeps. On the other hand, the screamers and shriekers and long, ecstatic moaners, as he drags out tormentedly "a favourite of my Morn and Dad's," are clearly getting a separate satisfaction out of their own behaviour. In fact so much of the performance is contributed from the auditorium that it is as hard to assess its merits as it is to explain its success. On the last score, the ostentatiously worn deaf aid should not perhaps be overlooked. It hints at a frailty bravely overcome, and stirs all kinds of half-realized compassions, particularly in those who forget...
After the speechmaking, a corps of 40 uniformed guides took guests on a tour of. the labor palace. They saw a 472-seat auditorium decorated in 23-karat gold leaf and equipped for CinemaScope and Vista-Vision, a walnut-paneled conference room with a large pear-shaped table, an executives' dining room with television and canned music, a coffee room, private shower baths for top officials, wood-paneled offices for all bigwigs. There were oil paintings, lobbies walled in Aurisina Fiorito marble, ashtrays costing $7.50 apiece on the conference tables, and bronze boxes for outgoing mail ($17.50 apiece...
Westerns & Work. One afternoon Ike attended a western film in the small auditorium on his floor of the hospital. One morning he was wheeled to the third floor of the hospital, where he had a fluoroscopic examination and the first standing X rays since his illness. The doctors had waited anxiously until Ike was able to stand up for the crucial examinations, were relieved to discover that his heart shadow showed no enlargement or other abnormalities...
...after another whisked Deputies around the city, while their expensively furred wives went to eat cake and whipped cream in coffeehouses along the fashionable Kurfürstendamm. But a Berlin newspaper remarked tartly, when well-fed Deputies had difficulty squeezing into the student-size seats in the Technological Institute auditorium, temporary home for the Bundestag: "These benches weren't made to accommodate representatives of the West German economic miracle...
...Communists did all the changing. In 1952 and 1953, Shanghai bore the brunt of Peking's bloody campaigns against "capitalists and counter-revolutionaries." The city's dog track was converted into an auditorium, its Great World gambling hall into a theater, its race course into a parade ground. Still Shanghai persisted in being a problem city. Its "teeming slums gave refuge to a steady flow of anti-Communists and criminals. Long after its shops and factories could provide jobs, they attracted hundreds of thousands who came from the starving hinterland in hopes of livelihood, thereby increasing unemployment, crime...