Word: organism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pine-fringed 82-acre lot just northeast of Washington sprawls the capital's third largest, most tightly guarded building. Though smaller only than the Pentagon and the State Department, the modernistic nine-story headquarters of the U.S.'s biggest intelligence organ, the National Security Agency, is also official Washington's least-known edifice...
...Wheels. Most such churches begin by taking over a drive-in theater on Sunday morning. Minister, choir and organ perch atop the projection booth or a makeshift stage, and the sermon is piped into cars through window speakers. Among the most impressive of several new churches specially built for drive-in congregations are Schuller's Garden Grove Community Church (designed by Richard Neutra) and the glass-walled Trinity Reformed Church in Kent, Wash., which will accommodate up to 300 people in cars parked outside. Both Garden Grove and Trinity Reformed also serve worshipers seated in the nave...
...programs are cheapened by the use of a throbbing electronic organ for background music, reminiscent of the old radio soap operas--for those of you who remember that vanished genre. Consultant--for the series, which will continue until Christmas, is Harvard Ph.D. John Hope Franklin--the leading historian of the Negro, the leading Negro historian, and currently chairman of Chicago's history department...
...Friday, as fact and fuure legend will bear out, 90 per cent of the crowd stopped dancing and stood around the platform to watch Streetchoir's galvanizing first public performance. The tidal wave of applause that followed their last set rivalled the electrical intensity of Michael Tschudin's powerful organ solos...
...soloists, the five are diverse and brilliant. Ivers, the most aggressive, plays harp at capacity volume, punctuating his solos with sharp staccato blasts shaking him from head to toes. Tschudin, scorning more pedestrian methods, gets high on his organ and builds climatic crescendos of musical phrases. As for Hillman, the other four call him the Ghost Rider, because "he can draw fast enough to shoot a knife that's being thrown at him." He has a wonderful habit of bending the final electronic note of his beautiful guitar solos--a habit which invaliably draws a series of awe-struck screams...