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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pittsburgh Report | 10/3/1966 | See Source »

With gracious manners, in a spacious drawing room, a fiftyish couple are leading an embalmer's parody of life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Whisky Before Breakfast | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, now squeezed into 2 Divinity Ave with the Psychology Department and the Yenching Institute, would find a more spacious home in the Science Center...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Harvard Opens $49 Million Drive To Improve Its Science Facilities | 9/24/1966 | See Source »

...hardly accommodate a P.T.A. pageant. Principal singers, he finds to his horror, have to rehearse in the ladies' powder room; scenery is stacked behind the building on Seventh Avenue. Just be patient, the board of directors tells him, the company will be moving into a new and spacious house in two or three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Lord of the Manor | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...nation's giant banking, commercial and industrial corporations. In its expensive northern suburbs, artistically wrought steel burglar bars cover the windows of elegant homes, where watchdogs growl on the door mats and swimming pools sparkle on the spacious grounds. Surrounding the city, but separated from it by a green band of no man's land, are African townships where hundreds of thousands of blacks live in government-built mass housing units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

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