Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole delicate operation has catapulted Owings' team into what he calls "the fifth dimension of planning?politics, the art of getting things done." The team works with local, state and federal governments, is bringing public officials together with homeowners, businessmen and minority groups. They form a giant new client. And they care what will happen to the highway as deeply as any client S.O.M. has ever served...
...does the U.S. lack for architects of ability, vision and daring. True, compared with many other professions, they form a thin line. There are only 29,000 registered architects in the U.S., compared with 315,000 lawyers, 315,000 doctors, 275,000 engineers, and they still have too little effect on U.S. building. But given the opportunity, the best U.S. architects often lead the world. Among the examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since...
...handshake, a hand on a shoulder, even an embrace." After 30 seconds they were to tell each neighbor in the circle "what they honestly admire, respect and perhaps even love in him." McGaw described the touch-and-tell, which was interspersed with appropriate Bible readings, as "a different form of sermon...
When he says that "dissident sartorial fashion" is a form of transvestism that blurs sex differences, it seems that he has never looked beyond the long hair and junk jewelry to the girls in miniskirts and bikinis, or the young studs in beards, creeping sideburns and tight jeans. And when he claims that "the Underground" in the U.S. (which he does not define beyond the suggestion that it is a vague association of malcontents) never raised its voice against the Russian suppression of Hungary, he is simply indulging in a naive bit of conspiracy theory...
...this era of shock theater, it is hard to realize that there were mellow days of social comedy, when moral and political dilemmas were discussed in the drawing room with reason and wit. In the '30s, Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was the master of the form (Rain from Heaven, No Time for Comedy). Now 75, he has applied the formula to his first novel, and it is as well-turned and entertaining as his best plays...