Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advise him in the amount of glass that could be used, the architect called in British Structural Engineer Felix Samuely, and together the team produced a vast, stunning edifice in the form of a fish. Though not fashioned on such a preconception ("This interpretation was made after the design"), the shape honors an old symbol* that early Christians, pushed underground for their heretical beliefs, defiantly scratched on the walls of the Catacombs. Harrison's main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which...
...greatness, Bobby himself agrees. A floppy, abrupt young gangle-shanks, he stumbles through the physical world of school and subways and summer vacations in a tangle of arms and legs not quite under control. But in the neatly ordered empire of the chessboard, he moves with vast precision. Swiftly he picks his way among the possibilities; haughtily he sidesteps the traps. Experts compare his aggressive, scientific style to that of Russia's famed Alekhine, his flair for combinations to the touch...
...equal slice of Kay Kendall, Gregory Peck, Tennessee Williams and a host of other gold-plated names? For new light on the vast organization that collects these tidy percentages, keeps itself in the dark as much as it keeps its clients in the limelight, and controls much of what the U.S. sees in movies and TV, see BUSINESS, 10% of Everything...
Fully a quarter of the nation's radio listeners are on wheels-and often listening hard for word of road conditions. To get extra mileage from this vast audience, the Mutual Broadcasting System has set up an experimental "auto network" of 31 stations stretching from Buffalo to Miami. Purpose: frequent weather announcements plus advice not only on the best routes but on what local station to tune in for news of conditions on the next leg of a long drive north or south. If the new scheme works out, Mutual plans to extend it to all 450 network affiliates...
...Philip Johnson kicked off in 1932 the boom for the International Style of wrap-around ribbon windows, flat roofs and stripped façades, came close to disowning his own offspring: "Not the least value of studying Gaudi's work is the exhilaration that comes from realizing how vast, how unplumbed, are the possibilities of architecture in our time. The dead hand of academicism in the 1950s seems to be closing in on our way of building...