Word: hieroglyph
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...concluded that the era of banks and skyscrapers is at an end, as indeed it has been since Franklin Roosevelt took office. In the decade covered by the exhibition there have been almost no major skyscraper projects except Rockefeller Center. Ferriss once called the skyscraper the "hieroglyph of capitalism, commercialism, and confusion-a symbol of an age in which there is no spirituality." In the '20s New York's cube-like buildings were getting higher & higher. New York streets darker & darker, New York traffic denser & denser, when the city decreed that, buildings, after reaching a moderate height, must...