Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most experts as primus inter pares - was quick to minimize its importance. Said he as the new medal was pinned to his chest: "In the face of the great task that has to be accomplished, I am encouraged by an awareness of the fact that in the entire Central Commit tee and the government we are working as a smooth, harmonious collective, relying on each other's assistance...
Waterside will be a mixing place in yet another sense. Not only will the large central plaza, planned to descend in terraces to boat landings at the river's edge, include shops, a restaurant and theater; it will also be tied to Manhattan by an overhead pedestrian bridge and two vehicular underpasses beneath the F.D.R. Memorial Drive. A parking area for 740 cars will be provided on a second level under the plaza. "We want to make the area a 24-hour sort of place," says Brody, who expects that the plaza will become a rendezvous for people from...
...Brothers." What Stanbury and his confreres have done is to marry English and American tailoring into a "mid-Atlantic cut." This is somewhat arrogantly described as "not quite what an Englishman would wear," but with more shape than the typical U.S. suit. Nor is shape the only compromise. Lacking central heating, Englishmen prefer fabrics weighing 15 ounces to 20 ounces per running yard; San Franciscans choose almost English weights, but otherwise, says Stanbury, "we can't sell anything over twelve ounces...
...memorial, to be built in the capital's West Potomac Park midway between Jefferson's and Lincoln's. But unlike those neoclassical memorials, Breuer's design calls for seven free standing walls, massive granite triangles each 60 ft. high at the apex, radiating from a central stone courtyard. Narrow pools of water run along the base of each wall; small contrariwise triangles beside the pools conceal spotlights. From the air, the monolithic walls appear to be the blades of some gigantic turbine. From the surrounding park land, they seem more like a miniature granite mountainscape, with...
...wake of the Russian rocketry that launched Sputnik, many a critic of U.S. education assumed that the supremacy of Soviet schools was no longer in doubt. The Russians don't think so. Last month the party's Central Committee and the Soviet Council of Ministers ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes...