Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This belief changed man's walls. In fact, at first Le Corbusier eliminated walls. His Domino house schema used floors like open terraces connected by cantilevered stairs and supported by interior columns. No longer load-bearing, walls could become curtains of glass; interior partitions could fall where whim or esthetics wanted them. Said Léger: "Corbusier made us a present of the white wall"-the perfect neutral setting for art. He hung stairs outside to leave interiors uncluttered. He lifted buildings on stilts, or pilotis, to free pedestrian space underneath, then doubled the available ground plan by building...
...board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt. The 50-ft., $100,000 Hatteras usually comes off the ways weighed down with stereo tape and record players, a boat-wide complex of stereo speakers, built-in bar with electric ice-cube maker, dishwasher, disposal, wall-to-wall carpeting and air conditioning...
...nation that has staked much-and sometimes too much-on t he hallowed concept of the separation of church and state, the federal funding of projects and institutions with church ties has become commonplace. Whatever happened to the impregnable "wall of separation between Church and State" that Thomas Jefferson "contemplated with solemn reverence"? The answer is that the wall is still there, invulnerable as ever, but that reasonable men have found gates in it that can be opened, yet guarded. Says Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, himself a Baptist teacher: "Separation of church and state meant one thing when government...
...will really cost the company only about $15 million annually−$10 million less than it is currently paying in preferred stock dividends, which are distributed out of after-tax earnings. The benefits to the preferred stockholders and to the company and its common stockholders were immediately recognized on Wall Street, where by week's end U.S. Steel's preferred stock jumped $26 and its common stock $2 per share. What puzzled many on Wall Street was why U.S. Steel had waited so long to follow the lead of National Lead, American Smelting & Refining and other firms that...
...response to the news, prices slumped on London's stock market−and on Wall Street. One of the few cheerful notes involved the price of the pound itself, which remained steady for the second straight week without support from the Bank of England, thanks chiefly to the encouraging fact that Britain's trade gap for July fell to a trivial $2,800,000. There was some economic news to grin about too, including efforts by a big oil company to grab more of the country's gasoline market by hiring bikini-clad station attendants to give...