Word: basin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edmund N. Bacon, professional advisor to the memorial commission, said that the design would blend into nature and become part of the Washington, D.C. Tidal Basin without dominating it. The rejected designs, Bacon stated, were formalistic and geometric, while the eight soaring tablets "directly transmit the words and thoughts" of the late President...
...Cambridge Advisory Council, or the Cambridge Historical Council rise up against any urban redevelopment, a genial but shrewd character will be at the bottom of it all. Synonymous with the idea of buildings on stilts, with plans for a $100 million project to fill in the Charles River Basin, and with what his enemies might term radical change in general is the name of John Briston Sullivan...
...city has taken over the franchise from New Orleans and Chicago, and is now Coolsville itself. The Jazz Gallery is a cold, concrete cave that could be an abandoned subway station; dedicated ears listen while Thelonious Monk passively stirs his piano or Dave Brubeck passionately tinkles his. From Basin Street East to the Roundtable, the Half Note Club to Birdland, the Embers to the Five Spot Café, the big cats prowl; and no jazz musician considers his career made until he has made it in Manhattan. There are also places like the Metropole, where the old-timers of Dixieland...
...Story of Jazz (narrated by Langston Hughes; Folkways). A neatly telescoped chronicle of the U.S.'s greatest native art form from Basin Street to Birdland. Using segments of historic recordings, Narrator Hughes gets thumping, jumping assistance from Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson et al. Folkways also offers a vast additional library of musical lore from West Indies calypso to Ghana folk tales...
...clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will begin bearing cash crops. Says Jungle Jim: "This is pioneering the way we did out West 100 years ago. It's the most exciting place on earth." With the success...