Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figures are still, withdrawn, awesome. Yet they also express a sharply contrasting sense of the ordinary and everyday. He casts fat, simple, dull-seeming people in the roles of gods and heroes. Except for his owl, and the timelessness it symbolizes, the Seated Man might be riding a subway...
...house on the southern edge of Calgary, Alta. (population growth: from 104,000 in 1948 to 225,000 now). Today, he travels 50 blocks south to see his children, who live on the northern edge of a new subdivision. In metropolitan Toronto, which completed Canada's first subway in 1954, European immigration has pushed population from 1.100,000 to 1.600,000 in ten years. In Vancouver (pop. 518,000 in 1949, 659,000 now), backyard swimming pools are common and nothing smaller than three-bedroom houses seems to sell...