Word: ergo
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...precedent existed anywhere. In leafy suburbs of Chicago these houses still look strangely civilized and sheltered, with low vistas and wide-spreading eaves. "Taking a human being for my 'scale,' " Wright has said, "I brought the whole house down in height to fit a normal one-ergo, 5'8" tall, say. . . ." But though Wright had freed domestic architecture he did not feel himself free. Making what provision he could for his wife and six children, he went to Italy with a woman named Mamah Borthwick Cheney. They were never married. On their return...
...second front of Darth Vader's army. The hero: Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), risking his world to save the flame-tressed Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). His hearty crew: a wizened wizard named Ynyr (Freddie Jones), a sad-faced Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), the scabrous brigand Torquil (Alun Armstrong) and Ergo, the inept conjurer (David Battley). The villain: a reptilian Beast who looks like the Alien from the Black Lagoon...
...disease is the will speaking through the body. Cancer is thus a single illness that manifests itself both physically and psychologically. Like medieval physicians, who thought that health was a balance of humors, he maintains that well-being is not a quality per se, but a form of equilibrium. Ergo, cancer is not a cause of unbalance but a consequence. In the final sections of the book, Zorn, 32, obviously failing in energy and spirit,' takes the advice of Job's comforter: to curse heaven and die. The Almighty is an organism, he concludes, in which the sufferer...
...huge baby-boom generation, which statistically has already helped bulge out of shape various U.S. institutions, including schools and colleges, is now age 27 to 35. Most of the 76 million boomers are finished with the drug culture and alternative therapies. Instead, many of them have seized on fitness-ergo, older Americans jog in an attempt not to be pushed aside by an army of fresh, unlined faces running in their wake. For the '70s generation, leisure consisted of getting its head together. The reading list: Creative Divorce; Your Erroneous Zones; The Baby Trap; Looking...
...other University officials went to work. A 1977-78 survey of properties showed Harvard officials that maintainance had been deferred, that tents were lower than comparable privately owned buildings and that--perhaps--there was money to be made, or at least not to be lost in such large quantities. Ergo, Harvard Real Estate. Formed in 1978, the wholly owned subsidiary of the University has worked, its officials says, to improve and repair Harvard's properties and at the same time to raise rents so that, in the words of president Sally Zeckhauser, it can attempt to win "a fair return...