Word: architect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including the one with the richest first prize of all, the $55,000 Alcan. Singer Jack Landron passed up a free junket to Finland, which he won on TV's Dating Game, because he refused to fly. While designing the capital city of Brasilia, Architect Oscar Niemeyer regularly drove the 575 miles overland from Rio de Janeiro rather than take a1½-hour flight...
Some people seem to forgo TV as a form of personal protest-against society, the 20th century or the erosion of their privacy. Manhattan Architect John Keane, 28, considers TV "depressing to have around. Lots of people I know don't have television sets, but they also don't have telephones." Others ignore TV because they are afraid of getting hooked. Mrs. Jay Sheveloff. 30, of Boston, has seen the "horrible" specter of her in-laws watching continually; she refuses to have TV around -at least until her husband finishes his Ph.D. A number of nonowners ascribe their...
...replaced by 15-minute-service counters in skyscraper basements. In the Wall Street area, where building activity and crowding are most intense, lines form in front of hot-dog carts at lunchtime, and a sign in a Broad Street bookstore reads: "Please-no browsing from 12 to 2." Says Architect Percival Goodman: "Size can mean healthy growth or cancer. In New York, it's become cancer...
...Museums must create a mood of excitement and anticipation, of mystery," says China-born U.S. Architect Ieoh Ming Pei. "Fatigue is not just in the feet, it's in the mood." Seldom has an architect done more to enhance the sense of expectation for the visitor than did Pei in his Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y., which opens to the public this week. It is only the most recent in a series of exciting new buildings that add up to a museum explosion in 1968 (see color pages...
...some observers, the chilly, crystalline expanses seem to echo the eternal stillness and emptiness of death. To Architect Kahn, however, quite the contrary is true: "The glass makes the monument sensitive to everything around it and gives it a sense of life and hope rather than of death. One is conscious of light. Light is what we come from; we are born out of light. Light is the maker of all things, of all presences." Furthermore, he feels, the monument "is not accusing. One Pier-the chapel-speaks; the other six are silent...