Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today our technology has brought chaos. We have speed, traffic, fear, congestion, and restlessness. We need a place to put our lives in balance. Architecture is a good place for this. When people go into buildings, there should be serenity and delight...
...redesigning the Wayne State University campus in downtown Detroit,--an accomplishment that undoubtedly brought him to Harvard's attention--Yamasaki said, "At Wayne we are aiming for an island of urban delight--a lovely system of courts linking the building, all on a walking scale...
...that while the club owners could take the boys away from Coogan's Bluff and Flatbush, they could never take the old ways away from the boys. And while the transplanted Bums and Jints staged their comedy of errors. 20 million TV fans sat transfixed with horror and delight. Items...
Armpits & Armageddon. All this may seem trivial and inconsequential, like a parlor game in which people amuse themselves by swapping anecdotes about what they were doing when they got the news of Pearl Harbor. But the reader, seduced by the perfectly tailored prose and the quiet delight of well-mannered comedy, may be led to overlook the muscular structure of Powell's art. Nick Jenkins is no Prince Hamlet, but as an attendant lord he misses nothing; his eyebrows are often raised, never his voice. Human action, Powell seems to be saying, is of primary importance in itself...
...Moores and the 15 Giacomettis; from the three heads of Baudelaire-one by Duchamp-Villon, one by Rodin, and a third by Elie Nadelman-to Leonard Baskin's mournful John Donne in his Winding Cloth, to the delicate construction by Naum Gabo, the exhibition provides one delight after another...