Word: rather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blaming the controversy on a few new executives who "wanted to flex their muscles," he said that the employers rather than the workers started the issue. Angoff thought that the present strike would probably quiet their ambitions for a while though...
Morrison-Cocconi refuse to concede that their speculations belong to science fiction. "We submit, rather . . . that the presence of interstellar signals is entirely consistent with all we now know, and that if signals are present, the means of detecting them is now at hand . . . We therefore feel that a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is hard to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero...
...Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than as standardized as those in a modern motel." In addition, Saarinen was determined to discover an architecture that would keep the two new colleges from looking like stripped-down cousins of the older structures built in the days of low construction costs...
...them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
...college will have its own tower. For conviviality, each will come equipped with cellar-type butteries around whose round oak tables students and masters can gather. "It is hoped," Saarinen added, "that television will be kept out of these rooms, so that they become centers of conversation and discussion rather than areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria, f. bota, var. of butta cask, bottle...