Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solution, revealed last week, was space itself. Architect Roche designed a soaring, wedge-shaped shed (estimated cost: $10 million) that will shelter eight acres of exhibits. The roof is made of an interlace of cables covered with a steel deck, and hangs off steel pylons at the four corners. Says Roche: "It's as if you roofed over three-and-a-half city blocks at the 12-story level...
...they are so boxed up with themselves and blunted by past obliviousness, that they expect little sympathy and give none. Each character cherishes a scheme which will somehow give birth to his personality: one brother has a minute plan for decorating the room, the other wants to build a shed out back, and the bum is always about to go down to Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments. His finicky concern about his shoes, especially, reminds...
...shed the light of art too timidly, too meanly, too intermittently on this world that I was depicting. The crux lies not in the quality of such gifts as I have, but in spiritual hastiness, in the fact that we were blinded by tremendous events, deafened by cannonades, by roaring, by intensely loud music, so that at times we ceased to detect the nuances, hear the heartbeats, and so lost the habit of discovering that spiritual detail which is the living tissue...
...Sailing up the St. Lawrence from Prince Edward Island, where she began her eight-day visit, the royal yacht Britannia docked at Wolfe's Cove, and for a full hour security police combed the area before the Queen and Prince Philip stepped ashore. In a bleakly unceremonial freight shed, she inspected the honor guard, listened to a welcoming speech by Premier Jean Lesage, then climbed into a bulletproof Cadillac for the drive to the Quebec Parliament Building-and a reception as chill as the north wind moaning down from the Arctic...
Timing & Fading. Orchestra Number One was on the stage in the Tanglewood shed under the maestro's baton; Two and Three were on the shed floor at either side of the stage; Four ended up nearly out of sight under a canopy normally used by the audience to walk from the parking lot to the shed. Four's conductor, English Horn Player Louis Speyer, had a closed-circuit TV screen in front of him to show him Conductor Leinsdorf, and earphones, which gave him the beat of the other orchestras...