Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran of Air Force survival work, Captain James F. Smith, military commander of the team, kept a close watch on the melting mass, issued a series of radio reports to Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska...
Philadelphian William Gardner Smith, author of Last of the Conquerors, a study of Negro G.I.s in Germany, lives in a working-class quarter in Paris where Americans are seldom seen. He feels that in the U.S. "one wastes too much time being angry. Life here is more natural, more leisurely. In discussions with French people, they never say, 'How do you, a Negro, see this?' They simply ask, 'How do you see it?' In Paris you forget the color of your skin...
...free country. Then there are my daughters. They are receiving an excellent education in France." What of the danger of getting out of touch with U.S. life? Snaps Wright: "The Negro problem in America has not changed in 300 years." Other Negro writers are not so sure. William Gardner Smith confesses that "the biggest problem I have is missing my roots. I've no intention of writing about France, much as I like France. It's not my homeland. But if I'm going to be writing about the States, something may be wrong, little nuances...
Outstanding are recent constructions at Wayne, Smith and Yale (see color pages). As architects are the first to agree, school architecture consists mainly in improvisations designed to keep pace with constantly changing needs and tastes. But these three offer bright-to-brilliant solutions to problems that will never be entirely solved...
...dormitory of Smith College, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, cost $1,600,000 and is less of a success. It is neat, severely cheerful architecture of the currently approved mode, but perhaps its negative aspects ought to be more noticed. In such buildings one lives in style, but it is an edgy and uncomfortable sort of style. The Japanese maple in the courtyard looks as forlorn as a stray kitten at a board meeting. The 160 girl inhabitants occupy facing wings across the courtyard, with picture windows looking on each other's picture windows. Yellow curtains, which...