Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard there was a riot at the gate," said Zoo Director James Oliver. "I rushed right out and there he was." Castro fed elephants, gorillas and orangutans, ate a hot dog and an ice-cream cone, vaulted a rail, and to the horror of the guards, reached into a cage and patted a Bengal tiger. "They don't do anything," he said...
...after building in the exhibition shows, the major debt of the U.S.'s younger architects is owed to Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. His bronze-sheathed Seagram Building, shown glowing against Manhattan's skyline, is a masterful exposition of how the steel cage can, by the very economy of its means and richness of its texture, become a masterpiece. But in the most advanced projects, it is equally clear that few architects now consider themselves blind Mies followers...
...combination of blind luck and Stone's agility which prevented them from scoring. Once, a Tech attackman lined a hard shot to the left of the goal which Stone managed to deflect, and a few minutes later no one could kick in a ball which rolled around the Crimson cage for nearly a minute...
Bohn scored three more goals, once rolling the ball in when the goalie had strayed far from the cage. But Tech managed to shake its lethargy long enough to make the score 4 to 3 at the half...
...Corbusier, he belabored these men as "glassic architects" and worse. He dramatically ranged himself against the sweeping tide of .the International Style. Manhattan's United Nations Secretariat was a "tombstone," Lever House "a waste of space," the Seagram Building "a whisky bottle on a card table." The steel-cage frame was "19th century carpenter architecture already suffering from arthritis of the joints." Boxy modern houses he called "coffins for living...