Word: supercinema
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction was mild compared with that of the public. The proposed cathedral was said to look like a factory, an apartment building, an auditorium, a "cross between a supercinema and a slaughterhouse"-almost everything except a cathedral. Spence immediately received 700 letters, mostly abusive. While construction was held up for 2∧ years of arguing, he received no other commissions, recalls now, "I went almost bankrupt." Finally, in July 1954, the building was started...
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