Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright and sunny morning, and a great crowd had gathered on the grassy expanse of Leopoldville's Grand Place. Small boys were perched in trees to get a better view, and teen-agers jammed the roof of the nearby African culture center. In the center of the square, cordoned off by police, stood a makeshift scaffold. A red circle had been painted in the middle of its collapsible wooden platform. A strong, rough rope hung down from the crossbar above. A row of open coffins, trimmed with gold and lined with white sheets, lay waiting on the ground below...
...year's Bryn Mawr undergraduates to move in, is also an exercise in bold geometry. The dormitory lies in plan as three interconnected lozenges. Inside its concrete and native-slate-sided battlements, it resembles a happy dungeon whose lofty towers admit a deluge of daylight. For its parapeted roof line and labyrinthine interior, he turned to Scottish castles, which he admires for their great center halls surrounded by thick walls hollowed out to make staircases and small rooms. The results made one student gasp, "Every angle hits you," and privacy seekers are delighted. Said...
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire-why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors...
...Then the roof fell in for the Crimson...
...surprisingly, Christopher loved heights. He had probably been on the roof of as many buildings that year as the average chimney sweep. And more than once, I suspect, he visited a friend by coming in an upper-story window...