Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Came Poetry. He and the hotel architect had agreed that his theme should be "Sunday in the Alameda" (the city's finest park, opposite the Prado). But Rivera, like his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Siqueiros and Orozco, was no man to waste a big hunk of wall on a merely pastoral theme. He had crammed his picture of the Alameda with the villains and heroes, the blood and dreams, of Mexican history. Said he: "Every one of the 148 figures in this mural I have known personally. I've shaken hands with most of them...
Freedom's Architect. Mountbattenji drew the biggest applause of the day when he said: "At this historic moment let us not forget all that India owes to Mahatma Gandhi-the architect of her freedom through nonviolence. We miss his presence here today and would have him know how he is in our thoughts...
...Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid Bergman and Christs like Robert Taylor. For me, a saint is a saint...
...business grew, she acquired a 90-acre estate on Long Island. But social demands were never allowed to conflict with business. Soon after she married her second husband, an architect named Robert L. Dodge, he went to work for the company...
Homemade Bakery. Recently, when business outgrew the garage, Mrs. Rudkin resolved her trouble in characteristic fashion. She sketched her idea of an ideal baking operation, complete with sloping tables for hand-kneading the bread. Then she drew a floor plan to house it. When she handed it to the architect, she warned him: You do the outside and the stairways, but don't change my plans." Last week Mrs. Rudkin and her 160 employees roudly moved into their new $625,000 plant. A U-shaped concrete building, it has a capacity of 4,000 loaves an hour. With...