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• When Arturo Toscanini rehearses the New York Philharmonic-Symphony he calls constantly into the darkened auditorium where a square-faced, square-shouldered German sits .
• He was John William Davis, at 79 a man of square-shouldered dignity, whose full, pink face was set off by heavy white eyebrows and silky white hair.
• And he would begin with an economical language derived from minimalism but draw each form out until it insinuated itself into places where square-shouldered minimalism never fit .

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• Syria’s Rebels Feel Hung Out to Dry by U.S.-Russia Deal
  In the early afternoon of Sept. 14, a stout, square-shouldered man in his mid-60s, wearing a dark suit, gleaming black tie and a thick, neatly trimmed mustache, stepped off the escalator that had just conveyed him to the first floor of the Wyndham Petek, an upscale hotel on the outskirts of Istanbul, and disappeared into a small meeting room amid a tight cordon of bodyguards.
  Sept. 18, 2013 - Time.com via Yahoo! News