Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the temple was a monument of stately form. Fenway Park is a misshapen variation on themes in green and grime. It is full of posts and bad seats. The left field wall, built high to convert cheap home runs into cheap doubles, belongs in a pinball game. But, given a choice between the Astrodome and Fenway, one would prefer the latter. On a summer afternoon the park makes delightful patterns of gloomy caverns and sunlit places. It suffers no totalitarian pastel plastic, no carnival scoreboard. It is true to the strange spirit of the city...
...surfaced through the portal and realized that Fenway Park was just right for the occasion. The fans were wrapped tightly around the playing field, the left field wall was still inscrutable, and great things could be done here. The park, like the team, was anomalous, small and somewhat fierce...
...Chinese by nature are prone to overstatement. None practice verbal inflation with greater verve than the South Chinese, whose largest city, Canton, has for the past two months been the main arena of struggle between those promoting Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and those opposing it. Cantonese wall posters and the tales of travelers coming out to nearby Hong Kong have painted a lurid portrait of a city racked by the clash of armies and awash in internecine blood...
...gallery room, surrounds the spectator on four sides. Three of them are dark, oak-framed panels on which are painted the small robed figures of judge, jury, prosecuting and defending attorneys. The juridical figures are fitted out with identical, froglike ceramic masks. Only the spectators, on the fourth wall, have a variety of normal human faces. In the center of the courtroom stands an ordinary old-fashioned oaken chair. "I want to make a bridge between the spectator and the event," says Friedensohn, "but an indeterminate one. I want him to think, 'Shall...
Died. Robert E. Woodruff, 83, boss of the Erie Railroad (now Erie-Lack-awanna) from 1939 to 1956; of cancer; in Delray Beach, Fla. "The scarlet woman of Wall Street" was the name for the four-times bankrupt Erie in 1939 when Woodruff, then one of the road's few able executives, took over as a court-appointed trustee. He needed only two years to get the company out of receivership; a year later, as president, he was able to announce a $1 common-stock dividend-first for the hapless Erie in 69 years...