Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much?" One night last week Manhattan Architect Wallace Harrison, who had helped build Rockefeller Center for the Rockefellers, walked into Manhattan's jangling, spangly Monte Carlo where Bill Zeckendorf was just beginning to enjoy himself. It was his sixth wedding anniversary, his partner's 34th birthday. Architect Harrison had a map of Manhattan in his hand. Ringing Zeckendorf's East Side site with a pencil, he asked: "How much?" Without batting an eye, Zeckendorf tossed off his answer: $8,500,000. Forthwith, a 30-day option in the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. was signed...
...Judas Sheep. There had been little enough progress in the area where U.N. would build: between 42nd and 48th Streets, from First Avenue to the river (see map). In the old slaughterhouse area livestock is still floated in by barge from New Jersey, is still led to the killing sheds by a cynical Judas sheep. On a vacant lot near the Consolidated laundry, Italian workmen still bowl through the intricacies of bocce every day the weather permits. Sidewalks are littered with old refuse, crumbling walls chalked with ancient obscenities...
...Madistas, taking the elements of each art, build;, that is, we make a real invention. With this we don't express anything, we do not represent anything, we do not symbolize anything. We create the thing in its unique presence. . . . The thing is in Space and is in Time; it exists. Our art is human, profoundly human, since it is the person in all its essence that consciously creates, does, builds and invents...
...Personally, I reject Communism ... I am convinced that democracy is a better society than dictatorship can build and that the su est way to destroy dictatorship abroad is to establish democracy at home; but it must be a democracy that preserves political liberty and uses it to establish equality and fraternity...
...Katharine Seymour's eleven episodes about Adam & Eve was more soap opera than Scripture. Excerpts: "As the years passed, Adam & Eve [played by Phil Clarke, 43, and Eleanor Phelps, 30-odd, in their best Sunday voices], haunted always by memories of the paradise they had lost, struggled to build a new life for themselves and their children. ... It is an afternoon in early summer. . . . Eve, preparing the evening meal . . . looks up eagerly as her husband enters...