Word: cubed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube...
...being tortured in the basement, a teen-age boy who shoots and kills his brother "just to see what it felt like." These vignettes, complete and unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free will, normality, responsibility and guilt. To the pastor, psychiatry is an abomination of the spirit; to the psychiatrist, Christianity is an insult to the intelligence...
Saarinen's insistence on doing this has made him one of the most debated, and at the same time imaginative, architects today. Rejecting the cult of the cube as the answer to every problem, he made his M.I.T. auditorium a billowing, white shell of concrete, resting on three points, in which the acoustic elements could be placed. His questioning ("Need a church be rectangular?") produced M.I.T.'s cylindrical brick hatbox chapel, lighted from a single honeycomb skylight above and light bounced up from the narrow, containing moat through low arches to give the interior a grotto-like mystery...
...each night to their little hut. After absorbing these whoppers, the audience is prepared for one more anticlimax: Taylor tracks the fleeing Granger and Debra to a hillside cave, but instead of shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently so mild that it does not raise a single goose bump on Debra's bare and dimpled knees as she rides off into the dawn in Granger's arms...
...humorous Ivy Oration, Frederick M. Kimball '55 of St. Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." This dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, end art began again...