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...defensible perimeter. Maybe no one has been worried about security issues with more intensity than David Childs of the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architect chiefly responsible for the final design of the new Freedom Tower. (That was supposed to be Daniel Libeskind, but that's another story.) "Like jazz, the skyscraper is a true American invention," says Childs. "Yet America is no longer a leader in the technology of high-rise buildings." He wants the building not only to symbolize rebirth at the Trade Center site but also to demonstrate that American thinking and construction can compare with...
...defensible perimeter. Maybe no one has worried about security issues with more intensity than David Childs of the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architect chiefly responsible for the final design of the new Freedom Tower. (That was supposed to be Daniel Libeskind, but that's another story.) "Like jazz, the skyscraper is a true American invention," says Childs. "Yet America is no longer a leader in the technology of high-rise buildings." He wants the building not only to symbolize rebirth at the Trade Center site but also to demonstrate that American thinking and construction can compare with the best...
...proud that my knowledge went beyond mere stats. I liked that I knew Paul O’Neil was a relentless perfectionist who would practice his swing while exiled to the long lulls of right field play, or that Bernie Williams considered a career as a jazz guitarist before settling on baseball...
...That's all right,' poke out from everybody's rhythm choruses like passwords to success ... Charles lives in a world of sounds alone, and even his best songs do not completely tell what goes on there. Southern spiritualists have claimed to hear him speaking the 'unknown tongue,' and serious jazz critics go along with calling him 'The Genius.' But something else remains-the catch in the way he sings 'That's all right'-and it suggests that something is wrong. How can it be all right, when it stirs the listener so sadly...
...That's All Right As Christopher John Farley noted in his remembrance of singer and pianist Ray Charles [ESSAY, June 21], the musician's domain included a variety of genres, from jazz to blues to country. Soon after Charles appeared at a couple of standing room-only Carnegie Hall concerts, we analyzed his style...