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Word: environ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Implicit in Planner Wolfe's proposals, he concedes, is the creation of "a number of mood rooms in the shopping environ ment, and, to put it drastically, even a little bit of 'ye olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Looking Backward | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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