Word: look
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than the first step. Gradually, bit by bit he succeeded in molding the uncooperative snow into a large ball. Suddenly straightening up, he hurled it with all his force at one of the windows of the Reading Room. The missle only splashed on the thirteenth step...
...have made the government look more silly in a long while than the New Deal disciples Jackson and Ickes. When Mr. Ickes hinted that the fascist-inclined plutocracy in America would be defeated by anti-monopoly legislation, he forgot to mention that the government itself tried to foster monopoly and regiment the people under the NRA, which told business to fix its own prices, and under the AAA, in which Washington played Big Bad Wolf to all the pigs and regulated crop planting for the farmers...
...visiting team's dressing room in Philadelphia's old Shibe Park was dressed up to look like a banquet hall one day last week. Gay flags hung from the walls, a long table sported baskets of flowers and an icy cake decorated with sugar baseball bats & balls, and about 100 baseball men milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting...
...travelers whizz over the surface of their country, picking up such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance...
That buildings should look like what they are meant to be is an architectural first principle whose modernistic practice is currently labeled "functionalism." The same label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most...