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Word: addamsish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plunked down in midtown, Wayne in every way is the heart of polyglot Detroit. The chaotic, 80-acre campus borders two auto-choked expressways and the city's two finest museums. Its buildings include Charles Addamsish mansions that once housed Detroit's wealthy. Its students fill the classrooms 14 hours a day, and some of them have to meet in a garage. Yet everywhere loom the cool creations of famed Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki (TIME, Nov. 17, 1958), who is turning ugly Wayne into a graceful "superblock" of imaginative buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rare Days at Wayne | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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