Word: spaciousness
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...likelihood Elizabeth would not have been too disappointed over the pearly Nylons. "The spacious days are gone," she told an audience at the Royal Society of Arts last week. "But we should be defeatist indeed if we concluded that, because everything we produce today must be severely practical, it must also be without taste or beauty." As gifts of everything from stuffed pillows to sewing machines piled up in St. James's Palace (TIME, Nov. 10), a young lord asked Elizabeth what she needed most: "So far," said the Princess, "we're awfully short on silver and Mummie...
Characteristically, Brooks is far more successful in bringing to life Whitman's optimistic, spacious, fervent democratic faith than Melville's tortured, Jacob-like wrestling with his own soul. He casts a wishful haze over mid-19th Century American life...
Pitch black Eliot House teetered on the brink of anarchy for ten minutes last night as Mastodons, piqued when the electricity went off for the second time in two study hours, hurled fire cracker after firecracker into the spacious courtyard...
...broad interests and good character," and teaching undergraduates to live and work together is the focal point of most of its official programs. As soon as the downy-cheeked freshman first sets foot on the Hanover campus, he is prompted to mingle with his classmates. His quarters are spacious but purposely drab, so that he will be discouraged from gathering mold over his books in scholarly isolation. The result is that the average Dartmouth man knows at least 200 of his fellows well enough to carry a conversation past the weather and Saturday football stages. Another result is that...
Died. Howard Myers, 54, publisher of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, for nearly three decades an outstanding editorial crusader for prefabrication and spacious, airy housing; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...