Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allied but not so product-minded group is the bohemian circle. While the artist spends considerable time suffering so he might be happy eventually, the bohemian can be happy all the time so long as he presents a miserable exterior. There are hundreds of these lonely aesthetics and they have arranged certain ways of dress and speech (not to mention thought) which are well accepted and, at the same time, different...
...tried on it. To reduce heat, a new green-tinted glass was used. To break up space, new movable paneling was developed. To keep maintenance cost low, dark grey Quincy granite (12,000 sq. ft.) was used around the base, Vermont white marble (6,000 sq. ft.) to sheathe exterior columns. Aluminum skin was specially anodized for weather resistance...
...considered a man of distinction because I write books. The truth is, we don't deserve it." Cozzens regards most of his fellow writers as softies. Says he: "The Old Man and the Sea could have run in Little Folks magazine. Under the rough exterior of Hemingway, he's just a great big bleeding heart. Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Faulkner falsified life for dramatic effect. It's sentimentality disguised by the corncob. I can't read...
...temple exterior is a concrete hemisphere carried on eight squat arches. Within the arches is a platform supported on columns. This raised platform, standing free of the walls, is the temple floor. The whitewashed, hemispherical interior is bare of ornament, yet in a sense is adorned by light, which ripples up from below on all sides. There are no windows...
...Philadelphia's City Hall, were not in good taste, "but they had something more important-CHARACTER." As for the houses, they provided more comfort, light and air, and certainly had more vigor and imagination than the thin, nakedly simple, conformist boxes of today. "The broken 'picturesque' exterior made the most of the effect of sunlight, shade and foliage. These are good houses to walk around, to view at different times of day and year...