Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are 30 steps leading to Widener Library, and they are too broad and spacious for commonplace things. A good company could do Greek tragedy on those steps, but a small man trudging up them alone is a melancholy sight...
...Swim. Mao's orders have made the Chinese diplomats more standoffish than ever. When the Cultural Revolution was announced, China's new ambassador to Algeria, Tseng Tao, had just begun to relish swimming at Algiers' spacious El-Kettani Club, a meeting place for the country's elite. Now he is seldom seen outside his for bidding embassy. Actually, Peking's emissaries are so isolated that they have little to do. But there was a flurry of activity in the Moscow embassy last week. In the latest round in the Sino-Soviet controversy, the Kremlin announced...
...that the exhibition within-"Art of the United States: 1670-1966"-was overlooked. It hardly could be, for rarely, if ever, has a better survey of American art been assembled under one roof. But what won over the first nighters was Breuer's dramatic exterior combined with spacious, almost handcrafted interiors, including white canvas and plywood walls, split bluestone floors, and precast concrete grid ceilings, that seemed to recede impassively behind the art works on display...
...become lost in the endless repetition of store fronts. Nodes of activity must be created. Scale must change from wide busy pedestrian malls to intimate little walkways. Some of these pedestrian ways should be open to the sun, some enclosed; some should have surroundings which are high and spacious, some low and confining...
...confronted with rows of small homes, looking much like any other lower middle-class neighborhood in the city. You cross Main and begin to see dilapidated Baptist Churches in white stucco and small restaurants featuring "soul food." You're wondering how a riot could have occurred in such a spacious, decentralized area, how a mob could assemble in these quiet streets...