Word: courtyards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to echo the nationalist sentiments of the recent All African Peoples Conference in Accra. To make matters worse, the demand for Congolese copper ore hit a slump, and jobless natives swarmed into the city to find work. Finally, one day last week, 4,000 blacks jammed into the courtyard of a Y.M.C.A. to hear Kasavubu speak at an unauthorized protest meeting. When the police arrived, the riots began...
...rambling, yellow-walled palace at Rabat, red-liveried Negro bandsmen of the royal "Black Guard" beat a tattoo and blared fanfares. Eleven men filed through the palace courtyard, up a marble staircase and into an ornate chamber reeking of incense. There, seated on his gilt and brocaded throne, King Mohammed V last week welcomed the members of Morocco's fourth government in less than three years of independence...
...Joachim Herz but supervised by the boss himself, stressed naturalistic stage effects, an infinite concern for dramatic detail, and acting of startling realism. The curtain rose on an iron grille stretched across the proscenium, representing the palace gate separating the chorus of rag-clad Chinese from the palace courtyard, where one of Turandot's unsuccessful suitors was about to be executed. The mob faced the audience in silence for several seconds, hissed in hypnotic fascination at their gruesome vision. Only then did the music begin. Throughout, the stage blazed with barbaric lights and colors, reflecting the influence...
...Riverview Junior-Senior High School, a 24-classroom, $1,204,945, two-story building by Yale's Architecture Department Chairman Paul Rudolph, 40. Built round a central courtyard. Rudolph's school uses exposed steel and white brick, copious canopies for sunshade...
...elevators in each of the "towers" will stop only on alternate floors of suites. Interlocking stairways, like those in Lamont, will also be used. Conway hopes to devise some variation of the traditional House courtyard to give residents "something attractive to look down upon...