Word: levittown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantage over schoolboy sports--no limitations on practice. Asher's boys had playbooks that would have broken Karl Sweetan's foot if he had dropped one. They began practice in midsummer and by the time the season was over in December had combed the country from Miami to Levittown to Chicago looking for a team that could play with them...
...been trying without success to find a buyer for its Levitt home-building business, which the giant conglomerate is under a Justice Department order to sell. Last week a buyer finally surfaced. He was none other than William J. Levitt, the 67-year-old creator of the celebrated Levittown instant suburbs, who sold the business to ITT in 1968. Levitt signed a letter of intent to take the company back and said that he will operate it as a privately owned concern under its original name of Levitt & Sons (ITT had called it ITT Levitt). The deal, if approved...
Venturi's arguments in the rest of the book for the ordinary--as opposed to the heroic--in architecture as exemplified by the commercial buildings of the strip, are based on the belief that the strip, as well as places like Levittown, ultimately represent the aesthetic preferences of the middle class. And why, asks Venturi, should anyone attempt to elevate a client's value system with reference to Art or Metaphysics? Of course, Venturi knows that an architect such as I.M. pei who caters to elite tastes would never be happy on the strip. However, he assumes that everyone else...
Since the mid-1960s, clusters of split-level houses have risen around Paris, looking much like suburban U.S. housing developments. Many have been built by two U.S. companies, Levitt & Sons and Kaufman & Broad. Now an heir of a famous French family is imitating the Levittown builders with great success. He is Maxime Breguet, 29, son of the founder of Breguet Aviation, which built, among many other planes, the Breguet 14 flown by the Lafayette escadrille in World...