Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cities & Cells. To Planner Saarinen a city is an organism which grows and flourishes or sickens and withers like a plant, according to profound natural laws and the conditions of its environment. Healthiest and most perfectly formed cities, Saarinen believes, were those of the Middle Ages, when the relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating...
...Camelots du Roi (King's Henchmen). For three days the Camelots hurled jeers and inkpots at the police. Then dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe appeared in his yellow gloves, backed by several hundred gendarmes and three fire engines. Daudet yielded and was ensconced in a comfortable cell in the Prison de la Sante, where he was permitted meals prepared by Mme. Daudet...
...Darkness At Noon (TIME, May 26, 1941) Arthur Koestler made, of a man in a Soviet prison cell, one of the great symbols of humanity in our time. In Dialogue With Death* Koestler himself is that symbol. During the Spanish Civil War Koestler went to Spain as correspondent for the London News Chronicle, was captured by Franco's forces. Later the British Government got him out of Spain. But for 102 days (February to May 1937), in prisons at Malaga and Seville, Koestler learned what it means to be sure from hour to hour (yet never sure enough), that...
...faint itching, a sort of sucking void, not entirely unpleasant." At the police station his hypodermic needles and morphine tablets (for suicide) and his golf stockings (he wore them because he dislikes garters) caused a minor sensation. He was registered as wearing women's stockings. Then the cell door slammed shut. Koestler's description of what happens to prisoners after the cell door shuts reduces the dignity of man to the twitching of a laboratory...
...look out. He fails . . . but decides to . . . master the art of pulling himself up by his hands." He dusts the wall-plaster off his suit. He "pulls a face, being determined to prove that he is full of courage and confidence." Suddenly he notices, at the spyhole of his cell door, an eye. It is an eye without a man attached to it, and for a few moments the prisoner's heart stops beating...