Word: monolithism
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...grey concrete monolith, the $7,500,000 laboratory rises five stories (87 ft.) into the air; its three-story basement goes 50 ft. down. There are no windows except at the "expendable" north and south annexes (the latter facing the most probable target area), which are occupied by clerical and administrative offices. Its doors are made of thick steel, and operate as quickly and effectively as a ship's watertight hatches. Both exterior and interior walls are of reinforced concrete; the extra-thick south wall of the main building, exposed toward the probable target point of downtown Washington...
...like the one detonated in "Operation Ivy" (TIME, April 12) were aimed at the White House, experts calculate that the laboratory would lie within the "heavy damage" radius (three to seven miles); and the expendable south annex would be shattered. If a much larger H-bomb were dropped, the monolith's chances of survival would be slim indeed...
...danger was that the monolithic Communist façade would be taken for the Communist reality. Everybody knows the strains and weaknesses of France, the indecisions and diversions in Washington: everybody hears of injustice in a county seat. But who was falsely accused last week in Omsk (pop. 281,000)? What scandals could the newspapers print, if they dared, in Shenyang (nee Mukden)? Over one-fourth the earth's surface was dark silence, broken only by the persistent loudspeaker proclaiming the solidarity and monolithic will of the leadership. But if the solidarity was there, it need not be proclaimed...
...spectre is haunting the Yard--the spectre of Lamont. For five years, this stone and steel monolith has leered down at the pastoral Yard with its fearsome glass face, frightening freshmen on the way to their breakfasts. One of these years was my freshman year, yea, and more than once I felt queasy as I passed President Conant's crazy little lamp-post...
...true, then, that in the bowels of this crazy indirect-lighted monolith, one can relax, and forget the pressures of the Victorian reality that lies in waiting outside the big glass doors. Indeed, some of the hardier lads can even, I know not how, manage to catch a little sleep beneath the soft lights, amid the soothing rustle of encyclopedia pages...