Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House converted double and conclude that Lowell dwellers are more comfortable is sheer folly. The very size of Lowell single rooms makes them inferior to even the smallest double; yet, because of the poor rent policy, the men in minute singles are paying rents comparable to others in more spacious doubles and triples...
McKean was a poor lecturer but an unusual man. "O I declare, I sometimes think he will look me right through," wrote one girl on hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his residence. Fay House saw another prophesy of things to come in the 1820's, when Sophia Dana used the Oval Room to give the neighborhood girls some schooling in subjects that the Harvard men were studying. The classes continued through several years against fearful dangers, for, as an observer remarked...
...building will house 1,500 tenants (330 families) in spacious duplexes, all prefabricated and slipped into place like drawers into an empty desk. The outer walls will be mostly glass, and finlike shades will protect them from the Mediterranean sun, a stunt Le Corbusier had tried in Rio de Janeiro. "Just as the human eye can stand the sun because it has eyelashes," says Le Corbusier, "rationally oriented sunbreaks will admit only those rays that bring pleasant warmth and cheer in every season...
...likelihood Elizabeth would not have been too disappointed over the pearly Nylons. "The spacious days are gone," she told an audience at the Royal Society of Arts last week. "But we should be defeatist indeed if we concluded that, because everything we produce today must be severely practical, it must also be without taste or beauty." As gifts of everything from stuffed pillows to sewing machines piled up in St. James's Palace (TIME, Nov. 10), a young lord asked Elizabeth what she needed most: "So far," said the Princess, "we're awfully short on silver and Mummie...
Characteristically, Brooks is far more successful in bringing to life Whitman's optimistic, spacious, fervent democratic faith than Melville's tortured, Jacob-like wrestling with his own soul. He casts a wishful haze over mid-19th Century American life...