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...Butteries." These facilities will replace the traditional Yale common rooms which, Saarinen felt, were not as popular as they should and could be. The "Butteries" will be collegiate Rathskellers with snack bars (that can be panelled off for more formal functions) and other furnishings which are expected to inspire wider use than do the regular Yale common rooms. The libraries in both colleges are large two-level halls with capacities for 13,000 volumes each and a system of quiet study alcoves...
...most of them are either adolescents or young married people. A good many of the stories are autobiographical, yet they are not simply New Yorker-ish reminisces. There is a certain digested quality about them which compresses and transforms the commonplace events Updike relates, and gives them a wider and often surprising significance...
This time the color is louder and the picture is wider than ever. And to the 1945 score by Rodgers & Hammerstein (It Might as Well Be Spring, It's a Grand Night for Singing), Composer Richard Rodgers has added five new songs. Unfortunately only one of them is worth hearing, a bit of hoggerel that Pop sings to George ("Warm and soft affection lies/ In your teeny-weeny eyes...
...streets, Heineman looked about for some way to speed the final lap of the journey for the commuters his trains had delivered to North Western's Madison Street station. Said he: "We discovered one completely unused 'expressway' right in the heart of the city. It is wider than most Loop streets; it is the one remaining traffic artery in downtown Chicago that is completely free of people, vehicles, stop lights and 'No Left Turn' signs...
There is no instruction of undergraduates at Rockefeller Institute, and Gleason pointed to this lack as one concrete reason he preferred to stay at Harvard. But he said that Rockefeller Institute has a wider degree of interdisciplinary contact in the natural sciences than he had found at Harvard...