Word: ribboners
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Many a tradition-minded Athenian, knowing Gropius only as the high priest of modernism, with its flat roofs, ribbon windows, concrete, steel and glass functionalism, promptly got set to dislike what he suspected was coming. Last week plans for the building were outlined, and the pessimists were pleasantly surprised...
...propwash. Air Force Lieutenant Thomas Ansberry took the C-123 up from 1,600 to 3,000 ft., let down flaps, slowed his plane to about 70 knots. With two crewmen the copilot went aft to try to pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum's 170 Ibs. and the massive press of air. They could see Flugum desperately trying to claw at the choking strap of his helmet. His lips time and time again mutely formed "Please, please, please...
...fight to reverse the trend, Dick Lee epitomizes a long-needed new look in U.S. city government. Says he: "The old type mayor was a ceremonial figure, concerned with marriages, wakes, strawberry festivals, ribbon-cutting. Today a mayor has to be an administrator and planner." A shipping clerk's son, Lee grew up in New Haven's Irish 17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
...aimed at the so-called mass culture, the conformity and the averageness of American life. Eg: Rene MacColl, embarking for London shouts "Home soon! I am hopping away from this great, swarming ant heap of a country..." And here, in the ant heap, David Riesman states, "One thinks of ribbon-like roadside slums...man-made rural ugliness.... and the endless aesthetic atrocity of the cities." There is undeniably something...