Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proper subjects for oils. He excoriated the Ashcan School as "contemptuaries." He accused the public of admiring "every dab of paint that comes out of dressmaking Paris." He called critics "dolts, asses, dullards who rave about impressionism and realism without knowing what Prussian blue is." And dealers were plain "racketeers." Hassam was so single-mindedly American that Fellow Painter Frederic Remington dubbed him "Muley...
Battlements on the Plain. "Corbu" tackled city planning before anyone dreamed that cities should or could be planned. He designed elevated freeways to make downtowns more accessible when Los Angeles was still getting used to stop lights. He envisaged cities with skyscrapers set in green spaces. He developed the original slab building that inspired the 1952 United Nations Secretariat but gave it character by breaking façades with what he called brise-soleils or deeply set sun-shaded windows...
...rough poured concrete, the marks of wooden forms remained like a touch of man's hand-a touch that so many modern glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp, France, with a roof shaped like a nun's coif (the shape also helps to project a preacher's voice). His only U.S. building is at Harvard, a Visual Arts Center perched on pilotis, with...
...currents were plain to anyone who looked at the top of the National League standings. Last week, with four clubs-the Dodgers, Giants, Milwaukee Braves and Cincinnati Reds-bunched so closely together (within 1½ games) that only a crowbar could pry them apart, the league was in the midst of the tightest pennant race in its history. Two other teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies, were also within striking distance of the leaders, and the tension was terrific-especially in San Francisco...
...capacity. Two further dampeners to runaway inflation: keen competition from foreign industries, and multiplying competitive pressures at home resulting from industry's vast outlays for new plant and equipment. Nonetheless, Washington has reason for concern. Despite the absence of concerted inflationary forces to date, the plain fact is that prices and wages are rising all over...