Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lured by more money in industry. With NBC affiliates donating the early half-hour on 149 network stations (151 next semester), the $1,112,000 project was financed by the Ford Foundation and hefty grants from industry (Bell Telephone, Standard Oil of California, General Foods, IBM, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Some 250 colleges jumped aboard, signed up 5,000 regular students, who pay an average $45 tuition and get from two to five hours of credit (depending on the college) if they pass their exams. The first-semester finals are due this week...
...brilliant "fire finish." But the process of drawing produces stresses that make flaws and irregularities. To make the glass smooth enough for mirrors, auto windshields and store windows, manufacturers are forced to an elaborate process of grinding and polishing glass sheets on both surfaces. The plate glass made in this way is expensive, and its surface lacks fire brilliance...
...stage set. Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, whom fellow architects rank with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, accepts neither form. In Mies's view, a museum should be composed only of "three basic elements-a floor slab, columns and a roof plate...
...Last of the Buffalo -both brown, spacious, romantic and unabashedly illustrative. The Washington show was long on flat, bright abstractions that would have meant no more to Eastman and Bierstadt than so many Indian blankets. First prize of $2.000 and a gold medal went to Walter Plate, 33, for Hot House, a big, lush bouquet of thick colors, which thus became the Corcoran's latest acquisition. An ex-marine who studied painting in Paris under the G.I. bill, Plate thinks of himself as "a strictly American painter," by which he means an abstract expressionist. The $1,500 second prize...
...might seem strange and austere to modern graduates of schools of creative writing, summer conferences, or writers' workshops. He pays four years' advance rent on an attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon he has plenty. They range from "rhypokondylose* violent stultified editors" to literary agents...