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When Sir Charles P. Snow delivered the 1960-61 Godkin lectures to an enraptured Harvard audience, he adopted the novelist's approach to illustrate his point that in modern industrial societies a handful of men make secret decision which determine "in the crudest sense whether we live...
...shell home came along, providing an inexpensive (average cost: $3,000), wall-to-wall do-it-yourself kit that was finished on the outside but left the interior up to the buyer. The shell house industry that started out so promisingly has just gone through one of the crudest shakeouts in business history, and is emerging a vastly smaller but much stronger part of the nation's $25.6 billion housing business...
...turned the roof into a parade of jitterbugging triangles that induce not serenity but instant fatigue. As for the Wayne State University College of Education Building, with its nonstructural facade of 120 faintly Arabian slabs of precast concrete. Yamasaki (who gets carried away by his own jokes) rendered the crudest verdict. When he presented the model to the Wayne board of governors, he pulled out from his pocket a little wedding-cake bride and groom and placed the pair on top. "Twittering Aviary." Because of this obsession with façade effects, Yamasaki has been denounced and defended with increasing...
Customs men and censors make the crudest cuts: the girl's fingers move to the buttons of her blouse, and suddenly it's breakfast. Distributors make deeper cuts after films leave first-run houses, on the simple calculation that the shorter the film, the more times it can be run in any one day. When Rocco and His Brothers arrived here from Italy a year ago, it was a full, pasta-rich 180 minutes long. After a run in New York art theaters, it mysteriously shrank to 147, then pushed off for the rest of the nation...
...foundations of more buildings are showing through the soil, and with them appear fragments of glass that may have been parts of medicine bottles that the Spanish colonists carried with them into the wilderness. Nothing spectacular or beautiful is likely to be found, for San Gabriel was the crudest sort of frontier foothold. But enough has been located already to bring to life the days when the armored conquistadors rode up the great river from Mexico...