Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ramps are not new in architecture. Assyrian King Sargon II wound a 6-ft. ramp around his 143-ft-tall Ziggurat at Khorsabad back in 706 B.C. What Wright did was avail himself of reinforced-concrete shell techniques to stand the structure on its narrower end, cantilever the floors inward, and top off the structure with glass, a material no ancient architect had to use on such a scale...
...oval hull like an inverted platter. Sticking up from the center is a cylindrical housing for a 435-h.p. engine and a four-bladed fan. Air from the fan is blown down through two ring-shaped ducts under the rim of the hull, and emerges in jets that point inward, forming a kind of wall. Inside this wall a cushion of air builds up and lifts the Hovercraft off the surface. Forward propulsion is obtained by diverting part of the air flow through horizontal ducts (see diagram...
...When you should have known, but didn't, you blame yourself and your anger is turned inward," Funkenstein commented. And when sufficient anger is turned inward, he said, the result can be suicide...
...described it, "a meditative bent tinged with melancholy, a heightened consciousness of duty and personal sin, a strong sense for authority and feudal traditions . . . while the West is characterized by zest of living, sensuous concreteness, mobility, rationality and democracy . . . These contradictory qualities were rooted in me-my life, inward and outward, to be enacted on their battleground...
...breeder about the importance of names, and the monikers sprouted as fast as his stable: Billy Fury, 17, light-sideburned Dicky Pride, 17, Vince Eager, 18, and Johnny Gentle, the old man of the group at 22. "What you have to do with a name is bring out their inward personality," Parnes explains...