Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such elegant materials as travertine, Tinian marble, gray glass, onyx and steel, was Mies' first major public building to demonstrate many of these concepts. It immediately established its designer as a master. The following year he replaced Walter Gropius as the director of the Dessau Bauhaus, only to close up the experimental workshop three years later in protest against Nazi restrictions. In 1938, an invitation to head the school of architecture at the Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full flowering of his genius. "He always said he would have...
...Idleness. Somehow, everyone stays a part of the Catholic community in Cuernavaca. Gregoire Lemercier and most of his monks are now laymen, operating a psychoanalytic center near the old monastery grounds. Their elegant religious art is still sold on the cathedral grounds, and Lemercier, now married, is still close to the bishop. Ivan Illich's center, legally a secular institution, is now secular in mood as well, and currently has a record enrollment of more than 600, including many non-Catholics. Méndez Arceo still speaks warmly and publicly of Illich's "participation in Cuernavaca...
...also close kin to a pygmy-sized creature called Homo Habilis. Last week Leakey's anthropologist wife, Mary, unveiled the most intact habilis skull ever found. It was dug up in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, and is about 1,750,000 years...
...tightened even more, the resulting squeeze on banks could have serious repercussions. Bankers are not alone in believing that, at the worst, additional tightening could provoke a recession. Raymond J. Saulnier, Eisenhower's last chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, warned last month that "we are as close as it is safe to get to the outer limits of monetary and credit severity...
...year ago-a stunning rate of inflation even for the construction industry. These increases eventually are reflected in the prices of goods sold by the new factories. They hurt consumers more directly by helping to force increases in new house prices, which are rising at a rate of close to 10% this year. The reason is that high wage and benefit scales established on industrial construction jobs are often applied subsequently to residential housing...