Word: linoleum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirited controversy arose over the issue of modern buildings in general. "Why do you think Radcliffe students prefer new, concrete, linoleum, whitewashed, glassy housing to warm old houses?" one senior asked. On the next page came a sophomore's answer, "Concrete and glass is preferable to drab miserable old off-campus houses." "124 Walker Street is the most livable place at Radcliffe," piped up a third girl. One girl suggested buying more old houses to preserve Radcliffe's "variety and fragmentation" instead of building new dormitories, but everyone else seemed at least satisfied with the idea of new buildings...
Wallant's people are the walking wounded and unofficial dead of the affluent society. They inhabit what is known in officialese as "substandard housing," but they are figures in a land scape of hell. Wallant writes with lyrical affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among...
...Luxe Color is perfection; the sets, for the most part, are harmonious modules of the Golden Section to which all good classical architecture answered; and a capital ship for an ocean trip is Cleopatra's barge-250 ft. from prow to poop and covered with gilt linoleum...
...safer," he decided and searched for another key. Soon he had traversed an empty tunnel and let himself into Houghton's impregnable, immaculate catacombs. All was silence except for the air-conditioning system maintaining a constant temperature of 70 and a relative humidity of 50. Light glistened from the linoleum, polished that morning as it was every morning. Gridley noticed an empty group of shelves where the so-called "Chinese laundry" collection had been kept before its transfer to the Yenching--bale after bale of Tibetan prayer sheets gathered in silk wrappers with colored silk tabs. But Gridley was hunting...
...next door, an elevator whose automatic door sometimes opened and closed itself at 30-second intervals all night. I learned to accept windows that had to be forced open and propped to stay open, kitchen cabinets that also had to be forced open (never to close again), lumpy kitchen linoleum, falling bathtub plaster and-ah, well, you told the rest of the story...