Word: cubed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade covered by the exhibition there have been almost no major skyscraper projects except Rockefeller Center. Ferriss once called the skyscraper the "hieroglyph of capitalism, commercialism, and confusion-a symbol of an age in which there is no spirituality." In the '20s New York's cube-like buildings were getting higher & higher. New York streets darker & darker, New York traffic denser & denser, when the city decreed that, buildings, after reaching a moderate height, must "step back" as they rose. Architects were horrified at such restrictions on "individual initiative." But Visualizer Ferriss, who got his early architectural experience sketching...
...Chicago ($750) went to New York's Russian-born, patriarchal Max Weber, who is regarded with almost religious veneration by his fellow painters. He was doing somber Cézanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube. Painter Weber's prize-winning entry, a ruggedly outlined, moody landscape called Winter Twilight, showed a pair of gaunt tree trunks grimly clutching an overcast sky before a background of cliffs and buildings...
...reduce their barber bills. A great one for contests, the Professor has introduced the Slo-Gro Triple-or-Nothing, Take-it-or-Stuff-it, True-Blue Americana Quiz, on which contestants have a chance to make $50,000, provided they can figure out such problems as getting the cube root of 11,682⅞ within three seconds flat. No one as yet has won any prizes...
...Winston Churchill's closest buddies, who last spring used to give the Prime Minister relaxation by beating him at Monopoly and Lexicon, Dr. Lindemann has proposed many weird but useful theories of war. Fellow student of Einstein, such a wizard with figures that he can instantly square or cube root any large figure, he once worked out a mathematical formula for taking planes out of spins-which worked. He was thought to have something to do with the R. A. F.'s inflammable calling cards...
...stands alone, builds a tower of two blocks; at two he runs, kicks a ball, builds a tower of six blocks, holds a glass with one hand, hunts for missing toys, turns pages one at a time. At three he likes to solve ball & box puzzles, builds a ten-cube tower, turns sharp corners while running, pedals a tricycle; at four he can broad-jump, throw a ball overhand, draw a man, button his clothes; at five he skips, stands on one foot, dances to music, carries a tune, washes his face, likes to wash dishes...