Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of Breinin's imaginary landscapes, like The City, introduce medieval figures of religion or enchantment into modern, urban scenes. Others actually show medieval streets peopled with monks and harlequins. Still others, like The Beach, are dry, pastel-shaded landscapes in which human figures take on the impersonal quality of the sand and sea against which they move...
Since the Middle Ages, the urban cell has grown out of all recognition. Its neat structure has become disorganized, its central nucleus diseased with slums, its circulation impeded by industrial growths and clotted traffic. "When a city grows compact, as when a forest grows compact," says Saarinen, "it withers...
Biggest buyers were industrial plants, utilities, large owners of urban properties, big mercantile establishments. Gimbel Bros, and its affiliated stores went in for $64 million coverage; Consolidated Edison for $300 million; A.T. & T., $1.4 billion...
...curtail hereditary privilege and extend the doctrine of equality of opportunity." These words spoken by President Conant before an audience of 300 Summer School and College students climaxed a speech during which he traced the origin of American liberty to the pioneer community, "the antithesis of a stable, sophisticated, urban civilization...
Tired of empty urban pews, U.S. Baptists last month began an elaborate program of suburban church building. But the evangelization of suburbia has hit a snag: priorities. Undaunted, the Baptists are meeting in suburban halls, schools, stores while waiting for building materials. In one Philadelphia suburb, the congregation worships in a barber shop...