Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choices for the Seven Wonders of American Architecture [TIME, Sept. 29] is indeed provocative. I used to eat dinner at Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House ("the Battleship") every night during the summer of 1948, and often wondered whether I was at the University of Chicago or at sea. That was during the Hutchins-Adler Great Books era, and it subsequently appeared that being at the University of Chicago then, or at sea, was more or less one and the same thing. The architectural magnificence of the Robie House still escapes me. Like Quasimodo, it is imposing but grotesque...
...McCrackin [who refused to pay all his federal income taxes-TIME, Sept. 22] has an American precedent in Thoreau, who refused to pay his tax for a similar reason. Thank the Lord there's still one sturdy American left who's individualistic. Whether or not we agree with the Rev. Mr. McCrackin, we can't help but admire his moral stamina and integrity...
...behind BOAC was Pan American World Airways, whose Boeing 707 was cleared for operation at Idlewild, but was still undergoing testing at London Airport. Racing one another, as the old Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads had once muscled each other in their drive to roll back the Western frontiers, Pan Am and BOAC had each charged into jet transport head on, in determination to be first across the Atlantic. Pan Am's consolation: soon the U.S. line will be flying transatlantic jets daily, while BOAC will run once a week until it receives shipment of new planes...
Congress. "If you vote for a Democrat, you are voting to raise your taxes, cheapen your money, and stifle the new investment and enterprise, which mean more jobs and more progress for the American people...
...Rock Cornish game hen, crab meat Louis and cream of pumpkin soup. Any conclave of hungry and thirsty humans was his meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted in explaining to slightly befuddled clients that turtle soup was a better first course than melon prosciutto for the simple reason that melon prosciutto was undignified. Such was his deftness in pushing wines that Waldorf guests annually drain 11,700 gallons of supreme French vintages...