Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear a child-yes, take that root off the high attic shelf of some Prudie Parsely of a witch-ancestor and plant it in the smashed glass and burned brick of the 20th century's junkyard...
...Camino Real might well have been a tall tower a few blocks from the fashionable Reforma boulevard, with its rooms overlooking Mexico City's great Chapultepec Park and an undistinguished, slightly seedy neighborhood. Instead, its brick-bearing walls rise just five stories high, and the 750 rooms all look inward over landscaped patios with gardens and glistening pools. Why? In part because the owners, the Western International hotel chain, wanted to build something different in Mexico City. Another reason, according to Jose Brockman, president of Western International Hotels de Mexico, "a high-rise hotel would have cost three times...
...half-century-old pile of brick, stone and flaking plaster, Principal David W. Lee, 43, has assembled a staff of 39 teachers who are there, as he puts it, because "they give a damn." The group includes 24 men, a high percentage for an elementary school. Although the enrollment is predominantly Negro, 33 teachers are white. Thirty are under 25. Many are recent graduates of Columbia, Yale, Chicago, and other blue-chip colleges. Belittling his own plain-cut clothes, Principal Lee, a Chinese American, says: "I'm a bum-but most of my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits...
...will offer the first real chance to examine, at close range and under modern museum lights, the way in which Renaissance artists made their frescoes. The craft, developed by the ancient Minoans and Etruscans, was so exacting that artists have devoted a lifetime to mastering the technique. First, the brick wall had to be prepared with several coats of a special plaster made with slaked lime that had been aged for a year or so. Then the painter deftly laid on his water-base colors, which were sucked into the wall by capillary action. He had to work quickly...
...protect residents from the cold Vienne winters, architects placed wood stoves under floors that were supported by brick pillars, and built walls of hollow bricks that would be heated by the fires below. An inscripted name, cut at intervals of ten feet along the lengths of lead pipes used to carry water in residential neighborhoods, revealed that one of ancient Vienne's plumbers was called Caius Lucentius...