Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urge among swarming lower-class families to put at least one member on the bottom rung of the new middle class stirs all across Mexico. In Portales, a section of Mexico City, one such family lives over the garage behind a big house. The father is caretaker for his landlord. The Indian mother and all the family-except one-spend their days squatting on a curbstone around an open charcoal brazier, making and selling tacos (tortillas rolled around fillings of beans, meat or chicken). The exception is a teen-age daughter, who wears nylons and goes to a commercial school...
...cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalms 144:12). For such polish, Mrs. O'Mahony's fee is an abrasive $1,325 a year. Hundreds apply, but only 30 are chosen-"daughters of leaders, men of noble birth, aristocrats of achievement, a cross section of the nice people...
...ever since France's Le Corbusier introduced it back in the 1920s. But rarely has a column in concrete had such handsome treatment as Nervi evolved for the 72 paired columns that hold the seven-story Secretariat some 16 ft. in the air. Tapered from a rectangular cross section at the top to a near oval at the base, they have all the elegance of classical porticoes...
Cleveland, leading the Eastern section by one game, pulled out a belated 21-14 decision over the Philadelphia Eagles and runner-up New York held off a comeback drive by the Detroit Lions...
Despite the defects of the composition and the performance, there was more than enough of interest in the work to warrant its performance, and the closing section, as well as other excerpts, was unexpectedly moving. If the work is not a masterpiece, it is never boring, and it was performed with care and effort...