Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been jailed for his ban-the-bomb convictions and argues, "Much ink, perhaps some blood, will flow before we arrive at a genuinely modern and credible vision of what a human person is. But I think any artist not in some way engaged upon that task might as well pack up and go home...
...building. Architectural magazines hailed McGregor Center as "delightful" and "refreshing," and the A.I.A. gave Yamasaki another of its First Honor awards. A Bit Slaphappy. As Yamasaki's body of work grew bigger, the autocritical facility of the architectural profession grew harsher - often with Yamasaki leading the pack. Critics declared the soaring interior of the Reynolds Metals Co. Building, which won a third A.I.A. First Honor Award, an impressive success; but they denounced the exterior grille, made of thousands of interlocking aluminum circles, as "costume jewelry." For Detroit's Northwest Y.W.C.A., Yamasaki designed a simple and highly practical building...
...suggests only that they huddle together for animal warmth in their loneliness. In the psychic fatigue of her voice, there is a fox at bay, and one hears, imaginatively, the sound so muted the rest of the evening, the distant, electrifying yelps of the white world's hound pack...
...things - becomes impish, light and gay. The third movement, on a poem about a lonely young girl, is softly lyrical. The fourth movement, on Evtushenko's "Fears" (about the panicky Stalinist days), begins with an eerie trombone solo and builds to a chilling orchestral climax that suggests a pack of howling wolves...
Misbehaving People. So far, the fighting has shown that the Indians need nearly everything, except courage. Chinese burp guns fire 20 times faster than Indian rifles. The Indian 25-pounder is a good artillery piece, but is almost immobile in the mountains and cannot match the Chinese pack artillery, recoilless guns and bazookas. Each Chinese battalion has a special company of porters whose job it is to make sure the fighting men have ample ammunition and food. The Indians must rely on units from their unwieldy Army Service Corps, who were never trained to operate at heights...