Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just...
...Lima's broad and sunny central plaza, the Vice President of the U.S. reverently laid at the base of a monument to Liberator Joseé San Martin a wreath whose entwined flowers depicted the Peruvian and U.S. flags. Outwardly Richard Nixon was at ease and confident; inwardly he had to consider warnings from Peruvian police and his own security people to skip the next stop on his program, Lima's 400-year-old University of San Marcos...
...apex of the combined opera house and civic auditorium. Beneath the auditorium is a planetarium; on top, a crenelated cupola housing "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp." Close by, soars a towering TV antenna in the form of Mohammed's sword. For his more mundane second commission, a central post office building, Wright sunk the main floor 11 ft. into the earth to get away from the heat, screened the glass sides with pendant iron grille, left a spacious interior garden court with fountains...
...more central question is how philosophically bleak is Duürrenmatt's own outlook? Is his an outraged castigation or an icy judgment? Is he saying how sadly corruptible is man, or calling life itself corrupt? In any case, not since Tennessee Williams' Camino Real has a new Broadway play conveyed so fanged and carniv orous a world. But where Williams traded in the very decadence and violence he seemed at war with, The Visit, whether or not philosophically in focus, never gets dramatically out of hand...
...MILLION SKYSCRAPER of 50 stories is planned for present site of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal Office Building. Group headed by Manhattan Builder Erwin Wolfson agreed to lease land from owner of site, New York Central and New Haven Railroads. But Wolfson, who was in one of the three other abortive deals for similar buildings, still has to sign final lease and get financing...