Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symposium: "Gaudi points the way not through a restatement of Gaudi, but by restatement of his method of approach. He has brought home the value of architecture as sculpture." Critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who with Architect 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...
...gross national product, one of the most often-quoted indexes, is also open to criticism. Designed to wrap up all the statistics in one package it comes out only every quarter, "thus ' often reflects where the U.S. economy has been instead of where it is. Says a Chicago banker: "It's a sluggish graph line. When you get a rapidly developing situation, as we have now a lag can be murderous...
...becoming afraid of silence. Music in wild profusion volleys forth from phonographs, radios, television sets, jukeboxes. Piped music ushers untold thousands of Americans into the world (hospital delivery rooms), through it (garages, restaurants and hotels), and out of it (mortuary slumber rooms). Millions open their eyes to it, wrap themselves in it as they drive to work, turn out goods and services to a brisk, production-boosting beat (overall stitchers in Colorado stitch 10% faster...
...tracks and crashed in Medford, Mass, one morning last week, the Quincy Patriot Ledger had to race twelve miles farther for the story than the dailies in nearby Boston. Nonetheless, the alert evening Ledger (slogan: "Cover the World and Don't Forget the South Shore") had its expert wrap-up of the story (EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED ON BRIDGE IN MEDFORD; 2 KILLED, MANY INJURED) in readers' hands long before metropolitan papers got to the South Shore with the story...
...power just as he needs a big engine to run all the wonderful gadgets that make driving easier: air conditioning, power steering, power brakes, power seat, power windows. Instead of sneering. Europe's automen are starting to window-shop Detroit for exciting ideas. Such U.S. innovations as wrap-around windshields, twin headlights, bright colors, even a few tentative fins are now appearing on foreign cars...