Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather Flamboyant. No one has ever had to tell Galbraith to get moving. When he is in Cambridge, he generally breakfasts in bed before 8, then for four hours locks himself in front of an IBM electric typewriter in the downstairs study of his rambling Victorian brick house at 30 Francis Ave., Harvard's faculty row. (Among his neighbors: Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan and TV Chef Julia Child.) By his own stern command, he is never interrupted. Tuesdays and Thursdays he has noon lecture classes, Tuesday evenings a seminar. Afternoons, he receives visitors, counsels students, answers mail, and reads...
...difficult to visualize even now in its final form, because the red-brick plaza which is the cement which holds the whole project together isn't finished yet. With pedestrian underpasses going through, a plaza with trees, walks, benches, etc., one will be able to see clearly the cencept which I.M. Pei developed for the Government Center. It will provide some continuity between Beacon Hill--the State House and the red-brick sidewalks -- down through Scollay Square, to Dock Square, and ultimately to the waterfront which is also to be renewed...
...powers have been there for a strong President to use. When the Swiss examined the U.S. Constitution as a possible model for their own 1848 charter, they rejected it on the grounds that the presidency is a "matrix for dictatorship." Nonetheless, even the most activist Presidents have run into brick walls. "Lincoln was a sad man," F.D.R. once said, "because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President, how I can just push...
Jerome Park Reservoir in The Bronx is a mile-long meander of New York City drinking water. Often dotted with migratory waterfowl, it serves as a cool, quivery mirror to the red brick apartments and raucous traffic that surround it. The 97-acre artificial lake, built in 1905, holds 800 million gallons of water to quench the thirst of nearly a million New Yorkers. Last year Republican Mayor John Lindsay's reform administration discovered that the reservoir's spalled concrete bottom had never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude...
Another example of urban negligence has long been the waterfront, the city's forgotten edge where old warehouses and factories stand abandoned and dis integrating. But lately across the U.S., the waterfront has begun to shape up. Architects always realized that the aging brick warehouses had character. Now planners and investors are taking advantage of their no-nonsense style and vast space and are remodeling them -rather than tearing them down-to make roomy apartments and lively shopping areas...