Word: exteriorizer
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...First Prize in the architectural competition fared no better. It was nothing short of scandalous to award the prize to Eero Saarinen's Chapel at M.I.T. for "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose." Although the interior has many praiseworthy features, the exterior is one of the chief eyesores of Cambridge--an ugly brick storage tank with foully proportioned arches set into it (see cut). Compare with it, for example, the Mexico City church erected several years earlier and shown in the other cut. The basic idea (which Saarinen thought original with...
Catacombs an Escape. "Communism has come to the conclusion that it will never succeed in destroying religion with brutal force; open persecution will never suppress the faith but only destroy its public and exterior manifestations. The Communists don't want this. They don't want a church in the catacombs which would escape the Communist Party's and government's control. They want a church that may be active, with administration of the sacraments and even large church attendances, but controlled by them through the choice of the priests in charge. The most tragic aspect...
...past left-wing sympathies in the noisy row which greeted the traveling "Sport in Art" show in Dallas (TIME, March 12),-he had just run into another rebuff at the hands of Texas patriots: cancellation of a $124,755 commission for three huge sculptured aluminum panels designed for the exterior of Houston's new $16 million Bank of the Southwest. The bank's explanation: the sculpture was "too modern," and somehow seemed inappropriate after the Bank of the Southwest changed its name from the Second National Bank of Houston...
...faster than even those of the booming aluminum industry in the past 15 years. Manufacturers have also pioneered a host of new products, from low-priced particle board, made of chips and shavings, to weatherproof, plastic-coated plywood and porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products, in an era of self-service selling, comes from U.S. industry's heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags are now widely used instead of drums, fiberboard cartons...
Despite his popularity, many feel Parsons presents a cold, rather impersonal exterior. As one graduate student in sociology explains, while "his overt behaviorial manifestations" are not warm, his great interest in students indicates otherwise. Nearly all who know him attribute his reserve to "excessive modesty" and shyness. After a few cocktails at a party, one friend jokes, his real warmth begins to glow. Similarly, while he usually speaks with painstaking care, his "Parsonian Prose" colors a bit when he defends Oppenheimer...