Word: skyscraperism
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In his personal life-style-he has a comfortable apartment on Paris' Rive Gauche, a country home, a passion for modern art-he resembles a successful businessman more than a spokesman for the working class. On television and radio, he has tried to sound moderate and conciliatory. He has...
Many businessmen do not doubt that the energy shortage is real and acute. Officials of Consolidated Edison put the New York City area on a round-the-clock 5% voltage cutback because the company had only a 9½-day stock of fuel left; that supply was dwindling steadily, and...
A trim, aristocratic-looking man, Lieberson still walks each morning from his town house on Manhattan's East Side to his office in CBS'S dark gray stone skyscraper (known to employees as the Black Rock); he still finds time for tennis and doodling on an unfinished violin...
The father of one boy I know works as a janitor in an office complex. He works for ten, sometimes for fifteen hours, every day. His work is in an unseen "second basement" underneath the "regular" sub-basement of the tallest skyscraper in Boston. He works so many deep and...
But Harvard Square residents never got the opportunity to see if the 23-story motel--a skyscraper by Cambridge standards--blended in well with the lowslung Square skyline.