Word: levers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Society has provided Scriptures for the blind in both the Braille and Moon systems, and since 1944 it has produced a 831-hour recorded version of the Bible. Its Finger-Fono system plays scriptural extracts on a lightweight plastic player whose turntable is spun by a finger-powered lever. But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries...
...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, pear wood, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
...Waffle." To build the new Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale turned to Gordon Bunshaft, who won fame for designing Park Avenue's green glass Lever House. Given a site facing the classically colonnaded Freshman Commons, and money from the S & H Green Stamp magnates, Edwin ('07), Frederick ('09) and the late Walter ('10) Beinecke, Bunshaft resolved to create a "treasure box." He erected a 58-ft.-high cube of granite-covered steel trusses and translucent marble set on four steel bearings atop its own Woodbury White granite plaza. Headlined the irreverent Yale Daily News...
...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
...that the tempest has come, and largely gone, two dangers must be avoided. First, no attempt should be made to exploit the general excitement as a lever, either to sway the Faculty which retains final control, or to stimulate custodial employees in the Houses to invade students' privacy. The inevitable barrage of letters from University alumni and donors should be allowed to coerce...