Word: unconcerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prefabricated housing has meant many different things to many different people. Architects have designed prefabricated all-steel trailer houses, houses that would come in packages, factory-built "bubble" houses looking like brimless derbies. Prefabrication has been steadily bedeviled by technicalities, the economics of production, building trades' obstructionism, public unconcern. But every once in a while poor, young prefabrication makes news. Last week the Government approved another prefabrication project for defense housing (it had already approved 40 others). The designers: U.S. Architect Paul Lester Wiener, Spain's Town Planner José Luis Sert...
...many Russian forebears. When they want more lengthy relaxation. Mother and Father and the two boys move to their camp in Canada where Father forgets his vertical and horizontal mobility long enough to be a compleat angler. He despairs of modern jazz, movies, radio, advertising, and has a high unconcern for the press. He is above all criticism, good or bad, from a world whose culture and civilization are degenerate. He has an enormous and un-selfconscious ego concerning the immortality of his works, but won't budge form the assertion that none of the modern greats correspond in ability...
...buff brick Greek legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue was quiet last week; on sunny mornings a Negro yardman hosed down the sidewalks; a white-coated houseman swung open the door to visitors in grand unconcern. Inside, white-haired, friendly little Minister Cimon P. Diamantopoulos gravely stated his pride in his country. Throughout the U. S., in Greek neighborhoods with their fruit stands, vegetable markets, small restaurants and grocery stores, the U. S.'s 700,000 Greeks discussed the news. In the Italian quarters - it was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome-fruit peddlers...
...these moves Italy at first pretended unconcern. Then the press began to bridle, pointing out: 1) that Britain was trying to strangle Italian trade, but could not do so because Italy could carry her commerce in her own bottoms; 2) that Britain was trying to make Italy appear to be an aggressor in the Mediterranean. Air Marshal Italo Balbo's newspaper, Corriere Padano, tried to reverse the process. "The Allies have an urgent need to regain prestige they have lost," said Corriere Padano. "Can the Mediterranean supply that need?" Corriere Padano even went so far as to declare that...