Word: exteriorizer
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...building was designed by Architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who also did an earlier glass-walled building for Lever Bros. (TIME, April 28, 1952). The new bank's exterior will be built almost entirely of glass, braced by a framework of thin, vertical aluminum supports called mullions. The only stone in the bank's walls will be the granite base, and one corner panel...
...increase the ''sales to the population" of cars, refrigerators, radio and TV sets. "We have every possibility," he said, in what was strange talk for a Communist, "to produce . . . smart clothes and elegant footwear." He did not blame Russian consumers for preferring the better finish and "exterior appearance" of foreign goods, "to the shame of the workers of industry." He spoke of the "justifiable reproaches of the workers" at the way the housing program is "still being carried out badly" and new houses are "carelessly finished...
Benevolent Exterior. With his pince-nez and some carefully cultivated propaganda about his being a pianist and a profound student of architecture, Beria brought an air of respectability to the secret police, which had become almost unmentionable, so greatly was it feared. The whole apparatus of the NKVD was reorganized. Thousands were released from the prisons and the story put about that this was Stalin's (and Beria's) clemency, and that the real instigators of the purge had been Yagoda and Yezhov. Beneath this relatively benevolent exterior, Beria turned the NKVD into the most ruthless and extensive...
Funster criticisms wee mainly "distance," while other Houses drew protests against "intelligentsia," "athletes," and "snobbery." Noted one Yardling of Eliot, "Behind that 'cold exterior,' there is a cold interior...
Stresses & Strains. The new rulers in the Kremlin inherited with Stalin's empire all the strains and stresses which assail its granite exterior; they did not inherit the cement of Stalin's myth and mystique. Now, on both sides of the great Red wall, the deadly, cold-eyed watch has begun-the Communists alert to prevent any fissures in their monolith; the West alert to find even hairline cracks through which to enter wedges...