Word: windows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years at Harvard, Mrs. Pusey expresses only one regret. At Lawrence, where she worked extensively in the College's extracurricular activities, Mrs. Pusey could sit at her kitchen window and greet any student who passed--by his first name. Here, she has been able to know only a handful of undergraduates, and says that seeing students "is the thing I miss most...
Glass and limestone facing were used extensively in the planning to avoid giving the buildings "the appearance of large chunks of brick," according to Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbott, the architects. The living room of each suite will have a broad floor-to-ceiling heavy glass window, and inside walls of rough pumice-stone...
...Young to Know. In 42 years with Manhattan's Russeks clothing store, David Nemerov rose from window dresser to president, and later chairman of the board. Last year he began to find the position "worrisome," and retired to Palm Beach to paint. Now 64, and one year old as an artist, Nemerov is happy and unworried. Last week a Manhattan gallery put on a show of his crude but luminous and intensely colorful pictures based mainly on French impressionism. To Nemerov's astonishment, 31 pictures were sold in the first four days at prices...
...more noticed. In such buildings one lives in style, but it is an edgy and uncomfortable sort of style. The Japanese maple in the courtyard looks as forlorn as a stray kitten at a board meeting. The 160 girl inhabitants occupy facing wings across the courtyard, with picture windows looking on each other's picture windows. Yellow curtains, which let in too much sun, are compulsory. The girls keep opening their windows, which throws the air conditioning out of whack, so that everybody is too hot or too cold. Walled and barred at street level, the Smith dormitory looks...
...Harvard University and felt the grey chill of the cruel world suffusing over me, I knew instinctively that it would be one of those nights. Wandering homeless and uncared for through the great city, a tragic victim of the carniverous academic world, I would shuffle from place to place, window to window, and finally wind up at a French sex flick. I was, as usual, correct...