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...example, Chicago's Lake Shore Apartments--twin skyscrapers built on one-story concrete stilts appearing "rather effemoral" to Creese--are designed to blend harmoniously with the Lake Michigan background. On the other hand, the seemingly realistic Chicago Tribune building, constructed to house a novel illuminated tower, now appears archaic in the Loop...
Under the direction of Marston Balch, the current performances by students and semi-professional players convey more than a minimal amount of the wondrous blend of humor and pathos in the script. And there are some fine moments in John McLean's Laudisi, Carroll Cole's mad (?) young man, and Barbara Joseph's mad (?) mother...
...cities and sleepy provinces, where the Tour is remembered all year, schools and businesses close to cheer it through. A brassy blend of road show and county fair, the juggernaut blocks traffic for two hours as it passes. Founded by a promotion-minded sporting sheet with the inappropriate name of L'Auto, the Tour is financed by advertisers, who pay up to $4,000 for the privilege of following the racers with sound trucks that blare praise for products from apéritifs to aspirin. (The Tour's current sponsors are two French papers...
While local orators paid flowery tribute to Hawaii's "daring experiment," the university set up the center as a confusing blend of graduate and undergraduate studies. In fact, it was just another department with an amorphous mission. Alarmed at a possible flop, prominent Hawaiians campaigned for a prestigious director: U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, who judged that the center had a flaccid future, backed away...
...music-which is alternately light and serious, old and new-is as pleasant as an international blend of good coffees. The trio sings in half a dozen languages, from carillon French (The Monks of St. Bernard) to olive Portuguese (Curimã) to blue-book English: "It's not that she won't, young man," go the surprisingly workable lyrics of Hey Li Lee Li Lee, "it's that she has so many unresolved problems in her personality structure that it makes it very difficult for her to achieve a decision in a time of intensified emotional stress...