Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound engineers have worked marvels of clear acoustics. But have they made too much of a good thing? The question was raised after London's Royal Festival Hall was completed four years ago, and it came up again after the first concerts in the new concrete-domed Kresge Auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (TIME, June 29, 1953). "The sensation," wrote Boston Herald Critic Rudolph Elie, after a Boston Symphony concert, "is thrilling to the last degree." But he called the hall "acoustically naked," pointed out that a "creaking shoe, a blow through the exhaust valve...
There was an orderly meeting of solid Mississippi citizens in Jackson (pop. 117,000) one day last week. Present in the city auditorium were 2,000 planters and small businessmen, 40 state legislators, Congressman John Bell Williams and Governor Hugh White. They were well-dressed people of the sort found at Rotary meetings or dancing at the country club. This was the first statewide meeting of the Mississippi Association of Citizens' Councils. They were addressed by U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland. His subject: school desegregation. Said...
...labels Mexico's University City (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) "the most spectacular extra-urban architectural entity of the North American continent." In about five years, the building boom has raised the height of typical buildings in Caracas, Venezuela from one to 20-odd stories. Such handsome buildings as the auditorium of Caracas' University City, with its high concrete vault filled with free-floating colored panels by U.S. Mobile Maker Alexander Calder, have put Venezuelan Architect Carlos Raśl Villanueva in the front rank of Latin American designers. Puerto Rico boasts a well-done hotel, the Caribe Hilton, and Henry Klumb...
...beautiful and functional downtown civic center (see above) was approaching reality. On a 76-acre site along the Detroit River, the first buildings of the $100 million project, a 20-story City-County Building and a Veterans Memorial Building, were open to the public. A 2,800-seat auditorium named for Henry and Edsel Ford and a 700-car underground garage were almost finished, and a convention hall and exhibits building, seating 14.000 people, was about to be started...
...Tenor Jussi Bjoerling), until she took poison and died in Act IV, her voice contained some of the bite and much of the richness of a clarinet. But its quality was warmed and softened with womanliness. It floated with effortless grace, swelled until it filled the whole block-long auditorium, tapered off sensuously into a decorative vocal arabesque. Whether she was making the most of one of her meaty arias or balancing her tones in ensemble with another singer's, the Callas voice went straight to the listener's solar plexus...