Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ragbag. There are critics who argue that the buildings are so far apart that they lose all relationship to each other. Corbu replies that he designed it with the measure of man in mind. One unit of measurement was the distance that a man can walk in an hour. For the interiors, he used his mystifying modular-a personal improvisation on the ancient Greek Golden Section based on the harmonies of the human body. This is one Corbuism that even his admirers find difficult. Says Editor Banham of the British Architectural Review. "It is a ragbag of ideas...
Kentucky Derby (CBS, 5:15-5:45 p.m.). Watch yourself lose the office pool...
With the dependability of a two-faced coin or a doctored roulette wheel, Americans each year lose between $20 billion and $30 billion on gambling-but they never lose interest. The lure of winnings without work is so powerful that neither moral censure, nor restrictive legislation, nor the tears of race-track widows-let alone mere losses-has ever been able to dampen it. Gambling has bred crime and corruption; it has also financed wars, built schools and churches, and, on Wall Street, produced something called People's Capitalism. "Gambling," a congressional committee once said, "is the lifeblood...
...fact," Mrs. Lee said, "I am able to talk about this only because I am losing my humanness--and because I am living in a society that is willing to lose its humanness...
...varsity heavyweight crew's disappointing third place finish last week leaves the Crimson with everything to gain and nothing to lose tomorrow as it takes on M.I.T., Dartmouth, and Princeton in the Compton Cup race on the Charles...