Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more major hotels are due by the early 1970s, when tourism is expected to total 1,000,000 visitors a year. The local government is arranging financing for a $17 million runway extension that will open Kai Tak Airport to jumbo jets; it is also planning a $500 million subway and a $350 million road improvement, including a tunnel to connect the mainland Kowloon peninsula with Hong Kong Island...
...EVER really believed that Radcliffe would stay north of the subway kiosk indefinitely. Certainly not Mrs. Agassiz, who handily provided in the 1882 charter of her moonlighting society that any part of its funds could be given to Harvard. Creeping integration continued through the Second World War until latter-day conversation with a Radcliffe dean revealed thoughts of merging with Harvard...
...find the building's interior gloomy and intimidating have been surprised by its airy openness. It is bathed in natural light, which pours down a central courtyard and through wide light shafts rising the full height of the nine-story building. It is extraordinarily accessible, with a subway station nearby and even has a concourse running through its ground floor. "It is the nexus of a lot of pedestrian routes in the city," says Architect Noel McKinnell, whose firm, Kallmann, Mc-Kinnell & Knowles, won the competition to design the building as the centerpiece of Boston's 60-acre...
Some of the works are, of course, stronger than others. You don't remember Anthony Thompson's rectangular sheet of clear plexiglass with one corner folded until you're deep in the subway. Only then does the powerful subtlety of Minimal Art attack. By contrast, the huge white canvas with three thick black lines by Curtis Crystal, a Tufts undergraduate, seems consciously aware of its importance...
...weeks, Leven planned to mount a completely new show. As he envisioned it, "It's going to concern an odyssey by subway after the subway moves into another mathematical system." By employing the odyssey archtype, Leven hoped to aim at flexibility within a series of developed episodes, dealing with a variety of Cambridge types. He insisted the new show would have structural, as well as intellectual, humor. It all sounded a shade too cerebral, but Leven was convinced that, at last, he had hit upon the solution...