Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harmon crumbles. He bitterly concludes that his life had always been directed by clever, domineering women, first his brilliant physician-mother, then his wife Laura (who as an architect made more money than he and treats him now as if he were a patient), and finally his two daughters, who are bright and saucy with progressive-school wisdom...
NORMAN BEL GEDDES IS MORE GIFTED IN DESIGN THAN HE IS IN OBSERVATION. THERE IS A PUMP IN THE PUMP ROOM [TIME, DEC. 13], BUILT IN AT THE LAST MOMENT BY SAM MARX, ARCHITECT. IT IS AT THE ENTRANCE AND IS OVERSCALE. TRUE, IT PUMPS NO WATER, BUT WE ARE NOT PARTICULARLY KEEN ABOUT PROMOTING WATER IN THE PUMP ROOM...
...least faced up to its responsibilities. As moral leader and chief architect of the hemispheric security system, it could no longer afford such lazy concepts as "automatic" recognition. Neither could it afford to wreck the hemispheric system by a return to the days of the Big Stick. Between the two extremes, by collective action with its neighbors, the solution might be found...
...headquarters in Paris, disillusioned staffers were telling each other that the famed French architect, Le Corbusier, now hard at work on plans for the U.N. buildings in New York City, was including special corridors for nations that wanted to by-pass an issue...
...making it more than double its present size. Items: spacious (25-by-21-ft.) rooms with two baths and a balcony, a roof swimming pool with a beach of washable rubber-composition sand. On the six city blocks of empty land that surround the present building, Geddes and Architect Paul Williams, who is collaborating on the plan, will build 500 bungalows connected by a tunnel system to the hotel room service...