Word: rectilinear
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...would be too much to call the Dulles family the Kennedys of the Eisenhower years: the rectilinear and Protestant Dulles tribe did not throw each other into swimming pools. But the Dulles family had something of the same proprietary interest in the world and the power that runs it. From the State Department, John Foster Dulles presided over the cold war and the nation's other dealings with the rest of the planet. His sister Eleanor was in charge of the State Department's crucial Berlin desk. Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, controlled a shadow...
...arctic DEW line after World War II, to demonstrate conclusively that for the material used they are the strongest and most efficient way to enclose space. Moreover, they cover maximum volume with minimum surface area. Ergo, it takes less energy to heat or cool a spherical structure than the rectilinear box of traditional architecture and consumer preference. Since nearly all dome homes have big skylights, lighting costs are also lower...
...surprising to think of large numbers of artists aligning themselves with the Bauhaus. Over time, Bauhaus design, with its stress on rectilinear, functional style, has shaped teacups, posters, skyscrapers, tapestries, op art, striped dresses, the Container Corporation of America's containers, and T.V. dinners. This is all in keeping with the Bauhaus image of art as intervening to save the visual environment from awesome but ugly technology. Still influential 50 years after the school's demise, the Bauhaus style of teaching permeates Carpenter Center and other university art departments. But this pervasive influence had not yet made itself felt...
Olitski's "break-through" -- the sudden leap from mediocre early work so characteristic of modern painting -- occurs in 1964 with paintings like Deep Drag. Here Olitski turns to a rectilinear ordering of the forms: the circles are still there, but they have been driven to the edges where they interact with long, brushed forms to shape out a composition clearly accepting the limits of the frame. (Eventually those circles will be reduced to thumbprints on the smooth field, and finally can be observed as mere drops.) Olitski's characteristic banishment of all drawing to the edges of the canvas appears...
...city's first church was dated, and remains the only Anglo-Saxon cathedral of first-rank importance about which anything conclusive is known. Biddle has been able to determine that the rectilinear layout of Winchester's Saxon streets did not follow the Roman street alignment. This suggests they were part of planned urban development, designed to reconstruct Winchester as a fortified burh, rather than the effect of casual growth. He concludes that late Saxon Winchester was larger and more densely occupied than the fifth-largest city in Roman Britain...