Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leontyne Price wants a chunk of the stage floor. Richard Tucker has his bid in for a slab of the proscenium arch inscribed VERDI. Rise Stevens has al ready filched the brass numeral 11 from the door of her old dressing room. Regine Crespin would like the toilet seat from No. 10; she plans to install it in her own bathroom...
...Slab Rendezvous. Fortunately, the man who designed the Chicago Circle campus prefers subways to taxicabs, is a champion of city living and a fancier of pop and op. He is Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's gangling M.I.T. Grad Walter Netsch, 45, architect of the Air Force Academy's space-frame chapel. Rather than trying to carve out grassy plots, he has opted for the tough, rapidly moving esthetics of the city. His results are what he calls a "microenvironment," a miniature city for learning...
...elevated pedestrian expressways that connect the actual city outside with the academic core of the college. The crisp, die-straight expressways are bordered by stone bollards and giant chains. From the four points of the compass, these airborne paths lead to a 300-ft. by 450-ft. elevated slab, a great, raised court that has become the students' principal rendezvous...
...other city, and the unavoidable traffic jams have elicited no examples of Christmas spirit from the participants. But somehow the city keeps her head. She looks with grudging admiration at Prudential Center, like the split level of a nouveau riche nephew, but stays home for the holidays. The stark slab may mean money and progress and all those other nasty things, but the important thing now is the old house, the Christmas wreaths looking dignified on Louisburg Square, the candles at the State House...
Morton May, called "Buster" by friends, oversees the chain from behind a modernistic slab desk on the eleventh floor of St. Louis' Famous-Barr store, the chain's flagship. Aware that the May Co. ten years ago showed signs of a slowdown under a 22-man board that included 11 members over 65, May continually recruits younger executives, schools them in the company's "fashion image." The curriculum is intended to teach them taste in merchandising in the same sense that May applies it to art collecting. May's aim is to make his stores leading...