Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Hall draws 5,000 Bostonians every day to register to vote, pay taxes, buy licenses and be assigned to jury duty. Those who expected to find the building's interior gloomy and intimidating have been surprised by its airy openness. It is bathed in natural light, which pours down a central courtyard and through wide light shafts rising the full height of the nine-story building. It is extraordinarily accessible, with a subway station nearby and even has a concourse running through its ground floor. "It is the nexus of a lot of pedestrian routes in the city...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
After a slow star the Crimson finally put its passing together and tallied three times before the end of the first period. Nick Sullivan lit the light at 10:51 when he took a neat pass from Rick Storer on the right side and slapped it into the nets...
...consciously new and vast. The guides say that it is planned to last 500 years. But it is so much separated from the City that it already conveys aging's aloof serenity. The building perceives, reaches out, looks around, withdraws. Its varying orifices capture the different frequencies of light and people in the City. The extending superstructure engulfs and enfolds. The cavernous expanse of the delicate underbelly captures you before you're aware...
...light of these substantive considerations, it would be highly unfortunate if the peaceful settlement of the Planning 11-3b dispute were to divert attention from the more serious and fundamental issue of student power. A. Richard Feldman...