Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the adults tried to armor themselves against reality: "Who bothered to look at the flames billowing up from the crematory? When, suddenly, an order came to barricade the neighboring block, who was disturbed? We well knew that they were being readied for the gas chamber, but we were too well-trained to worry about it. We no longer heard anything, saw anything...
...Gothic gloom of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral house on Nob Hill, 115 clerical and 385 lay delegates elected him Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California-slated to succeed Diocesan Bishop Karl Morgan Block when he retires next December. It took six ballots to do it. In Pike's favor were his age (44), moderate Low-Churchmanship and vigorous stand-taking as dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Against him were his ex-Roman Catholicism, the annulment of his first marriage and the same vigorous stand-taking...
...enhance the lobby, Inland commissioned Richard Lippold (TIME, July 30, 1956) to design a is-ft.-tall construction of stainless steel rods, which is suspended in a delicate network of wires of gold, stainless steel and fire-red enamel. It is set against a block of polished black Belgian marble, and rests in a reflecting pool of water. For the 19th-floor executive suite, U.S. Sculptor Seymour Lipton, winner of the Jockey Club's top acquisition prize at the Sao Paulo Bienal, hammered out a heroic, 7-ft.-tall Hero. There are more than 30 paintings, including a green...
Among the first tenants in the new building will be Chicago's civically proud Association of Commerce and Industry. Its decision to move there added point to Leigh Block's assertion: "In a city of dark buildings, our new building offers a ray of hope and cleanness and, I think, drama...
...groaned about the young generation, whose books are all titled Kiss Me Deadly, Kill Me Lovely or Love Me Dreadful, or lamented mating in the movies when the lovers "come together finally for a kiss, the mouths are open, on the big screen it's half a block long, you could see the tongues, like from a cow, this is not love any more, this is delicatessen!" In the end, of course, both Slezak and Neal went back to their old playmates, having come to know that "the main thing is a little understanding and a little humor...