Word: glassfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretariat, a 39-story office skyscraper towering above the long low assembly building, looked more like an ice-cream sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of 2,700 windows held by a tracery of aluminum. Their effect, said the FORUM, would be that of "a mosaic reflecting the sky from a thousand facets...
...Secretariat alone would cost some $21 million to construct. For its money, U.N. would doubtless get an efficient workshop. Would the glass & marble shell also look monumental enough for the purpose? Argued the FORUM: "In Washington, a hundred years ago, monumentality was columns. On the East River, now, it is construed as serenely simple geometry, akin to the pyramids...
...part of his body-were again at work on the island of Japan. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Xavier's landing, a party of 75 foreign notables, including bishops, priests and laymen, had come bearing with them St. Francis Xavier's right forearm in a gold, glass-paneled reliquary. Scheduled to visit most of Japan's major cities, the pilgrims were making a 17-day tour that will end next week with a Pontifical High Mass in Tokyo's Meiji Stadium...
Last week, music-lovers drifted leisurely through the dark green marble-pillared rotunda toward the glass-ceilinged East Garden Court for the fifth and final concert of Dick Bales's annual American Music Festival...
...little girl, Kay growing up and finally, in a big surprise climax, Kay announcing her engagement." But at Kay's engagement party, Mr. Banks never got to make his speech: he spent most of the party in the pantry, slopping together old-fashioneds at break-glass speed...