Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's top architects, including France's Le Corbusier and Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, had joined in deciding what the U.N. headquarters, on Manhattan's East Side, should look like. When their tentative plan was first announced (TIME, June 2, 1947), it raised a storm of protest. Howled one architect: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars...
...most startling part of U.N.'s headquarters, the Secretariat, was completed. It had been supervised by Architect Wallace K. Harrison, who also helped design Rockefeller Center. Described this week in detail in the June issue of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, it was bound to stir up a second storm: the final blueprints were even more strikingly "modern" than the original...
...Bridges family lives alone on a ranch in an isolated valley of the Sierra Nevada at the turn of the century. One night, during the first snow of the year, one of the sons awakes in the bunkhouse to hear the cattle crying far out in the storm. Subsequently he and one of his brothers ride out to investigate; a few hours later his body is carried back to the ranch slung to his horse. His brother remains in the mountains to hunt down the killer...
...Track Of The Cat" is a deeply engrossing bock. What Clark misses by his indefinite allegory and also by his sometimes tedious portrayal of petty details (endless scenes of housework in the ranch kitchen for instance) he makes up for in his absolutely unsurpassed descriptions of the mountains, the storm, the break-up of a strong man under stress, and the general atmosphere of coldness, loneliness and terror...
...Chief purpose of the tour: to try once again to whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball...