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...cannot help believing that the real problems of moral education, and the opportunities that beckon to meet them, are trivialized and evaded [by the proposed amendment...
...chart reading should pall and travel beckon, the U.S. Travel Service has advice about how best to go far, fast and inexpensively. While the Government has not yet taken a hand in promoting the citizen's social life, the Travel Service will arrange for visitors from abroad to stay in the home of almost any American who wants foreign company...
...woman turns topsy below inverted roofs. Perspective is abandoned to a personal scale that adjusts the size of images to their importance. So a huge cow and a man nuzzle, centering on a vortex of color that abolishes depth. Like the flat saints of old Russian icons, his images beckon contemplation, summoning memories from the mind. It is the scenery of a child building dreams in a darkened bedroom...
Induced Meditation. Visitors must enter from a sunken patio below the wall, instinctively ducking as they pass through the low bronze gates. Once inside, they move down a dim 70-ft. corridor, whose ominous overhead arching is shaded from grey into black. At the end beckon gleaming golden doors, which will open automatically as visitors approach and release them into the dazzling dome (see overpage...
...metatarsal arches. Before designing the building, Architect Pereira examined the plan of every known museum, conducted an exhaustive questionnaire of museumgoers, resolved to cope with their pet peeves and hates. To beat museum fatigue, the floors are carpeted wall-to-wall; elevators spare staircase schlepping; Mies and Eames chairs beckon visitors everywhere. To defeat the claustrophobia resulting from endless galleries, there is plenty of glass and natural light. "We did not want it to be a forbidding place, full of cul-de-sacs, but a pleasant, outdoorsy place," Pereira explains. "And anyone who grows weary of marching around merely steps...