Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trusting to Luck. So much money is involved that ambitious contractors can quickly build substantial businesses. Chicago's Tony La Pelusa, for example, started a tiny contracting firm at the age of 19. He picked a specialty-installation of aluminum siding, windows and eaves-and advertised heavily. Today, at 26, he owns three trucks, employs eight workers and farms out work to subcontractors. Vincent Bardis, 40, a former salesman, has built a bigger Chicago business by coordinating the work of 36 subcontractors. His firm has booked $750,000 worth of business so far this year. For some other contractors...
...teamwork and a sense of shared responsibility were crucial factors in the U.S. effort to land men on the moon, so were the contributions made by a number of individuals. By providing the answers to such questions as how to build a big enough booster, what flight plan to follow, and how to guide the spacecraft, these men eliminated obstacles that might have delayed the program indefinitely. Among...
...sense, though, Gropius lived to be disappointed. Rationality in architecture, which reached its peak with the highly disciplined, exquisitely refined towers of Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s, has been cheapened by the slick, boxy, formula buildings that proliferate in every city like frozen dinners in a supermarket. The architect's imagination is now captured by bold, brutal structures of raw concrete; or intricate multilevel structures, designed with the help of a computer; or "pop" buildings that seem to revel in the chaotic interplay of roof lines, angles, windows, colors. Yet all the architects who rebel against Gropius...
...interesting to me that in the Soviet Union, Cuba and China, they're trying to build a strong society, a revolutionary society that they hope will ultimately conquer the world. But they don't allow this kind of sexuality. They came to the conclusion that this is a destructive force. I don't think the function of the playwright, the author, the artist, is to reflect what's going on, any more than I should reflect what's going on. I think their function ought to be to lead, to direct...
Political Roadblocks. When the Labor government took over steel in 1967, officials proclaimed efficiency to be their primary objective. They argued that the fragmented private industry, which earned 1.9% on investment in 1966, could not acquire the capital to build the modern mills needed to compete with Japan and the U.S. The Laborites induced Lord Melchett, a Tory banker and philosophical opponent of nationalization, to accept the chairmanship of BSC on the promise that he would be allowed to run it in a strictly businesslike fashion. He quickly ran into political roadblocks...