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Word: piers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pete's Municipal Pier one recent evening, 94-year-old Bill Robinson was on the stage quavering Let Me Call You Sweetheart into the microphone. Three ladies were talking in the back of the room. "I can sleep up a storm." said one, "especially if it's raining." A man joined them. "Got up about noon," he said. "Went down to Williams Park and read the paper. Went home and took a nap. Ate at the Driftwood-soup, roast beef, carrots, mashed potatoes. JellO, coffee for $1.25. Went to prayer meeting. Heard a lecture. Moseyed out here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: A Place in the Sun | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...Completely tonal, full of color and exciting contrasts, the heroic score was never overwhelming, always deft in its handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most strikingly with the singing of the three-headed Geryones (Tenors Pier Francesco Poli, Pieo de Palma, Sergio Pezzetti), which sounded a little like Tnrandot's Ping. Pang and Pong in flamenco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Falla's Last Dream | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...international legal scholar whose unremitting and persistent effort has brought nearer to reality the dream of a united Europe. Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architectural engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos (Cont'd): Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...conclusion to his Charles Eliot Norton lectures, Pier Luigi Nervi last night looked into the future to a "vast and spacious architecture" constructed a strict obedience to physical law while maintaining an intrinsic appeal to man's aesthetic sense...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Nervi Foresees Future: 'Spacious Architecture' | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Drawing extensively on examples from his own career, Pier Luigi Nervi stated the advantages of prefabrication in reinforced concrete construction stressed again a recurrent theme of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures: the for close collaboration between designer, structural engineer, and con- from start to finish of an architectural project...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Nervi Describes Value Of Prefab Construction | 5/15/1962 | See Source »

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