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...backdrop for much of what appears in "Archilab" is the mid-20th century triumph of consumer capitalism and what was then its house style, classic Modernism. By the late 1950s the iconic Modernist building?an unadorned box, made of glass and concrete or steel, typically perched upon an empty plaza?was springing up in every part of the developed world. It was a style that could produce individual works of great beauty, but in the aggregate could transform whole city centers into visual and spiritual dead zones...
Adapted and expanded from Santiago-Hudson's 2001 one-man stage show, Blues recalls his childhood in an upstate New York boardinghouse in the 1950s and '60s. His surrogate mother, Rachel (Nanny) Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson), gives an ersatz family of wayward, mostly African-American drifters shelter, hot meals and toughlove. The youngest is little Ruben (an astute Marcus Carl Franklin), whom Nanny delivers in an upstairs room, then takes in when neither of his young parents proves mature enough to raise...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, described as “a G-man from the 1950s,” is portrayed as one of Summers’ most loyal yes-men at the University...
...Price indexing for benefits Today Social Security benefits are adjusted each year to reflect rising wage rates, so that seniors who made $100 a week in the 1950s still get a decent payout in retirement. Several plans for reform would instead link benefits to prices. Though benefits would keep up with inflation, price indexing would effectively be a cut, given that wages tend to rise faster than prices. Promised benefits would be smaller than currently expected...
...incidentally, she also wrote about the Beatles and Godzilla. Seriousness was one of Sontag's lifelong watchwords, but what she sometimes dared to take seriously were matters that educated opinion, as it emerged from the cramped quarters of the 1950s, dismissed as trivia. At a time when the barriers between high- and lowbrow were absolute, she argued for a genuine openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In "Notes on Camp," the 1964 essay that first made her name, she defined what was then a little-known set of arcane understandings--common within the gay world, not so common outside...