Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Questioned further about the time element, Long said it would certainly be within 10 years, but balked at pinning the starting date to five years hence. He also refused to be authority for statements that the project would include room for 2000 families in five 20-story apartments...
Instinctively looking for something solid to lean on, he turned to his master reading list. With rapid, but controlled glances he searched for an oversight. The hunt was fruitless, though, for his check, counter-check system left no room for mistakes. The blame, clearly, lay with Miss Schroeder...
...departure in architecture in the garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where a full-scale Japanese house was erected for exhibition five years ago. Never a man to waste time waiting for the decisions of practical men, Kiesler has plunged ahead into yet another project-a room for meditation, in which paintings open like windows and sculptures burst treelike from the floor...
...Bunky Knudsen, the rewards of success are a $100,000 annual salary, a sprawling, twelve-room colonial farmhouse, with two tennis courts and a swimming pool, on 40 acres in suburban Birmingham, Mich., where he lives with his wife Florence and their four teenage children. Knudsen does not spend much time there. His work day is ten hours long, and part of every evening is spent slamming Pontiacs, a new one each day, around the roughest roads he can find. Knudsen, who fidgets when he hears his success mentioned, likes to recall one of the few pieces of advice...
...Room at the Top. A curiously old-fashioned plot about social climbing, recalling Stendhal's The Red and the Black, in a modern welfare-state setting. Based on a book by John Braine, one of Britain's angry young novelists, the picture sometimes verges on caricature and cliche, but it remains one of the best British movies in years...