Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rubber-stamp ranch-house community of Levittown, Pa. (pop. 60,000), the vacant house at 30 Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this...
Such rugged academic programs attract crack high-school graduates to all six schools. "We discourage any student who just wants a roof over his head for four years," says Oberlin's President William E. Stevenson. Oberlin gets 75% of its students from outside Ohio, has been called the best coed college in the nation. Each spring, talent scouts from top graduate schools show up to recruit leading seniors. Says Stevenson: "If Oberlin recommends them, they get off to a fine start." Still, Oberlin's high standards have one built-in drawback: the students sometimes become smugly complacent about...
...This hall is dedicated to one of the great freedoms-freedom of expression," said its designer, U.S. Architect Hugh Stubbins, 45. "Its form was inspired by an attempt to express that great purpose." To capture the ideal in concrete and steel, Architect Stubbins designed a thin concrete shell roof slung between two bowed-out arches, set underneath as a stabilizer a multipurpose auditorium that by his own admission looked "like a teacup on stilts...
Berliners had other names for it. Watching the structure grow, they jokingly dubbed it "the Dulleseum," and compared it to a "hooded owl peeking over a fence" or "a pregnant butterfly." But once completed, the daring structure, with its gleaming white concrete roof, soft rose and blue walls, got rave reviews. Der Tag called it "a symphony of colors and forms"; the Socialist Telegraf headlined the news, WONDER BUILDING AT THE SPREE; BERLIN'S NEW SYMBOL...
...seven-story residence hall contains two of the three-floor "groupings." At ground level, below these six floors, will be faculty offices and apartments for resident faculty tutors. The Master's residence will be on the roof, with a ter- race for the adults at one end of the building, and a play area for children at the other...