Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the new building would press an estimated 12,000 new office workers into the already overpressed Grand Central area. But New Yorkers' basic objections were esthetic, though few people exactly articulated this, or could have if they tried. A certain esthetic pleasure used to come from the sight of the Grand Central complex-from the north, a stubby tower with a clock at its architectural nave; from the south, a Beaux Arts Eclectic facade crowned by monumental sculpture that nobody studied but everybody remembered. From either side, it was an ornamental point in the city's stark...
Spot of Tennis. But conspicuously on hand was Richard King Mellon, who for the past 35 years has been the operative head of the empire. At 69, he is about to retire, and it is perhaps symbolic that there is no Mellon in sight as his successor. Of his two sons, one is pursuing a career in oceanography. The other, though he is now serving an apprenticeship in the family bank, is only 26. Paul's only son is making a career in city planning. So, when Richard King Mellon finally steps down, the Mellon empire will...
...soul? Man, that's the question of the hour. If it has soul, then it's tough, beautiful, out of sight. It passes the test of with-itness. It has the authenticity of collard greens boiling on the stove, the sassy style of the boogaloo in a hip discotheque, the solidarity signified by "Soul Brother" scrawled on a ghetto storefront...
...that have passed into respectable everyday language. Having come to prominence through such recordings as Aretha's and Mitch Ryder's, "Sock it to me" is now used in a neutral sense as a catch-phrase on TV's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and is a common sight on bumper stickers and even political placards. Jazz (originally a copulative verb) and rock 'n' roll (from a blues lyric, "My baby rocks me with a steady roll") are other examples...
...supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes us wince. It is good, in a strange way, to know that in the minds or maybe just in the memories of youth, a church is still a sign of moral force...