Word: buttresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...focuses on Philip Hayman, an aspiring young writer who is ready for his last year in college and ready, too, for romantic agony. The book is built on the familiar cross-section pattern, and to some degree succumbs to the risks of that method: the parts do not sufficiently buttress one another; they simply follow one another...
...State Department. Last week a committee headed by Stanford Research Institute Economist Eugene Staley, back from a four-week study of South Viet Nam, submitted an inch-thick secret report to President Kennedy containing a detailed set of recommendations on just what needs to be done to buttress and shore up South Viet Nam for the imminent battle. Most immediate was a recommendation for funds to increase South Viet Nam's forces by another 20,000 troops. Overall, the report would commit the U.S. to the most detailed program of economic and social reform that the U.S. has ever undertaken...
...Massachusetts Avenue says, "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." And at the same gate, as you leave the Yard: "Depart To Serve Better Thy Country and Mankind." In the Yard, grow in wisdom: outside, serve mankind. And at Radcliffe there is talk of surrounding the quadrangle with a wall to buttress an unconfident identity. There will be a gate, and a similar inscription...
...critics prized this set-out look of the dome for the "cascade" effect it gave to a viewer standing close and looking sharply up. Classicists, however objected that the style varied too much from Old World models, whose domes are, set well back so that walls and roof can buttress them against the tendency of masonry to thrust out at the bottom...
Wintery Hyperbole. Waving an unlit blue cigarette in a holder, she pops her eyes, works her mouth into exotic shapes from figure eights to dodecahedrons, now and then poking forth a grooved tongue until she seems to be a rain-spouting functional gargoyle held up by a wildly flying buttress. All of this, including her guffaws between jokes, is merely punctuation. Phyllis Diller is not just a buffooning grotesque. Her form of comedy is even older than she is. and it runs counter to the trend of modern, storyline comedians, but her hard, calculatedly frenzied style goes over brilliantly...