Word: spined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small sailing craft and old men playing pinochle in firehouses were the people who stitched up the big holes in the world that were made by men like me." > Moral deformity carries its own stigmata: "He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities...
...Chace, coming through when it counted, reversed Sargent and then pinned him with three seconds left in the match to give Harvard a spine-tingling...
Humpbacked Spine. "No common denominator, except quality," proclaimed President A. Whitney Griswold, whose 13-year tenure (1950-63) produced Yale's architectural renascence. Under Griswold, no fewer than 26 new buildings were commissioned. He turned first to his own architecture department for a man whose reputation is greater than the number of buildings he has put up, Louis Kahn. Kahn gave Yale its first real 20th century building-a daring new glass-sheathed art museum, an extension to the existing Lombardic-Romanesque one. Kahn, like Corbusier, let the concrete shapes retain the rough marks of the wood forms...
...next architect to catch Griswold's eye was the late Eero Saarinen, Yale '34. Commissioned to do simply a hockey rink, Saarinen achieved a daring structure whose wooden roof is slung from a single humpbacked reinforced concrete spine, so that inside there are no pillars to block the view. Saarinen spent far more than the money that had been budgeted for the project, but the hockey rink so pleased critics and trustees alike that Saarinen subsequently was put to drawing up a master development plan for Yale. Along the line he won a commission close...
...lucky Etonian read deeply and widely, pored over Marx and Lenin in an attempt to understand Russia's long-range goals. (Harold Wilson admits that he never got farther than page 2 of Marx's Das Kapital.) When he was able to return to the House, his spine mended by the doctors, Home cracked: "This is the first time that anyone has ever performed the impossible task of putting backbone in a politician...