Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheerful determination, Mexicans last week began repairing, restoring and rebuilding their earthquake-tossed capital. It was a formidable task: close to 100 buildings, including office and apartment buildings, 25 schools and 41 theaters, were closed as unsafe. The luxurious apartment building, Casa Latinoamerica, was likely to be condemned. The landmark office building at No. 1 Reforma was abandoned and will be torn down. The new main wing of the Continental Hilton cracked away from its annex, will be closed five months for repairs. Even buildings with unscarred fronts turned out to be wrecks inside...
...proper legal definition of "advocacy and teaching," Harlan's opinion pointed to the 1949 jury instructions of Judge Harold Medina in the landmark trial in New York of Communist Party Secretary Eugene Dennis and ten other top U.S. Reds. The Medina instructions, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1951, said that the Smith Act denounced not the "abstract doctrine" of violent overthrow but the "teaching and advocacy of action" in "language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such action." Apparently, to the Supreme Court's mind, the key phrase was "incite to action"-and Judge Mathes...
...fiscal policy that helped bring record-breaking prosperity in peacetime. Months ago, George Humphrey telegraphed his intention to return to private business at the end of the 85th Congress (TIME, Feb. 11). The announcement last week of his resignation was therefore no surprise. But it was a highly significant landmark: it was in a strong sense the dividing line between the first Eisenhower Administration and a second Eisenhower Administration with new needs, new plans and new ambitions...
Other members or the department of Architecture joined Giedion in calling the Robie House a "landmark in the history of American architecture." Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, emertius, remarked that "for advanced conception this building impressed me more than any other when I first came to this country...
...considered the work of George Pierce Baker at Harvard an important landmark in the educational teaching of theatre. "It is safe to say," he insisted, "that the first impulse of the great expansion of teaching of theatre in the last thirty years came from Baker at Harvard." Among the prominent playwrights who studied under Baker were Eugene O'Neill and Robert Sherwood...