Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both were designed by the ebullient Gordon Bunshaft, chief designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Manhattan office. The new building is headquarters for the Emhart Manufacturing Co., which develops and produces machinery for making glass containers. Though in no sense decorated with extraneous embellishments, the building has a warm freedom about it that is almost impossible to achieve in even the best steel and glass boxes. The reason is that the structure is of prestressed concrete. "Steel is prefabricated in rectilinear units, and you have to work with that," says Bunshaft. "With concrete, you have to make your...
...Japanese comedy in the Italian manner. The fine Japanese hand of Director Zenzo Matsuyama has blended the smiles-and-tears vagabondage of La Strada with the bumbling malfeasance of Big Deal on Madonna Street into a Campari and sake cocktail that may be bitter at first sip but is warm on the aftertaste...
Last weekend's Experimental Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Village Wooing was a warm and delightful artistic experience which captured the spirit of Shaw's comic genius...
...royal couple quietly returned to Greece. Said Frederika before she left: "The decision to come to Brit ain for a state visit was the right one, absolutely right. I am not worried about these few people who demonstrated. The memory I have is of the warm reception we were given on our arrival...
...first-class hotel to help lure U.S. businessmen to set up shop there, Teodoro Moscoso, chief of the Puerto Rico Development Corp. (and now the director of the Alliance for Progress), fired off letters to leading U.S. hotelmen inviting them to come down. Only Hilton answered promptly, with a warm, friendly letter that began by greeting the Spanish-speaking Moscoso as "Mi estimado amigo." After that, Hilton had no difficulty signing a partnership deal with Puerto Rico to build the Caribe Hilton, now one of the most popular and profitable hotels in his chain...