Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cracks in the Wall. Despite disappointments in the President's failure to rally the great moral and political force that his office and prestige can command, Negroes could count some breakthroughs last week. The University of Kentucky became the first school in the Southeastern Conference to open its athletic program to Negroes. Atlanta announced it would integrate its swimming pools. Negroes were allowed to lunch in five Charlotte, N.C., hotels and motels that were previously segregated. Harold Richardson, the first Negro to run for office in Maine (where Uncle Tom's Cabin was written 112 years...
Chicago's 16-story Monadnock Building, built in 1891, required masonry 15 ft. thick at the base to support the crushing load. Such walls were made unnecessary by the so-called "curtain wall," hung from the building's frame. But since World War II, the architects' slang for a building's outer covering, "skin," has become especially appropriate; thin, lightweight metals and glass have turned more and more office buildings into glistening, icy slabs of graph-paper monotony. What Frank Lloyd Wright called "those flat-chested facades" has become a national vice...
...classics of a more individualistic age are being forced to conform. In San Francisco, the Home Mutual Savings Building, designed by Daniel Burnham and John W. Root in the tradition of the illustrious 19th century Chicago school of architecture, is now having its balanced grandeur shrouded by a curtain wall of glittery white porcelain enamel. "Worse than a desecration," growls Architect Nathaniel Owings of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "It's a stupid misunderstanding of what the future...
...three pistons that propel the economy-consumer spending, businessmen's spending and Government spending-are all pumping once more in unison. Production, profits and purchasing power are running at records. The reports from autos, steel and retail sales are bullish. On Wall Street the stock market has come back to within 15 points of its all-time 1961 high of 734.91. The business pickup has been greeted by every name, from the grudging "seasonal upswing" to the barely restrained "boomlet" now used in an advertisement by staid Standard & Poor's. The economy's performance...
...Chinese extras, and to blow the whole thing up at the end. Pictorially, the film is magnificent, and some of the handsomest scenes-an orange sun rising over the peaks of the Forbidden City, midnight pyrotechnics as the Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman, which open and close the picture. It was doubtless ghastly to wait 55 days at Peking until a troop of international reinforcements arrived, and the moviegoer who goes through the whole...