Word: xanadu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building put up in 1962 caused such a world of comment or brought into action so many cameras. Professional critics found dreadful flaws, but to almost everyone else the U.S. Science Pavilion, that pleasure dome of the Space Age at Seattle's Century "21" Exposition, was a modern Xanadu, built for their delight, a declaration of independence from the machine-made monotony of so much of modern architecture...
...project may be taking in Yamasaki's inventive mind is his secret, but simple arithmetic shows that the vast space needs and limited site could force him to record heights or bulk. One thing the center will not be is harsh or cold. In taking the road to Xanadu, Yamasaki has turned office buildings, schools, churches and banks into gentle pleasure palaces that are marvelously generous in spirit. He shuns monuments. He is suspicious even of masterpieces, which he feels often better serve the ego of their creators than the well-being of those who use them...
Woodworth had more to say about the way in which music, poetry, art and literature could affect a man's life. He discussed at length "the Deep Well of human experience"--a phrase used in Lowe's The Road to Xanadu--and he hoped his listeners would be able to draw upon this well "for solace, and comfort, and strength, and inspiration...