Word: doorknob
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...Bauhaus' second home in Dessau. Flat-topped and structurally spare, the building had horizontal bands of windows that made it seem to hover effortlessly above rather than rest heavily on the ground. Such buildings had no more of a distinct national style than a locomotive, a chair, a doorknob, or any other machine-made object...
Take a man doing a highly technical job and punish him because a doorknob is not shiny enough; make him appear in uniform on his own time to hear an official announcement the content of which he knew days before; make him an officer and expect him to believe in these absurdities. The mind boggles briefly and then realizes that the Army is something to be borne and that dignity and fulfillment will have to be sought elsewhere. Exit one valuable...
...productive power, for all its feats in space, the Soviet economy seems unable to produce a doorknob that always turns, a door that closes properly, a light fixture that works on the first try, a toilet that flushes consistently. The average Russian's clothes are shabby, ill-fitting and expensive; it takes half a month's wages to buy a pair of shoes. His diet is dependent on the seasons and painfully monotonous. On the average, the Russian has only nine square yards of space in which to live, and young newlyweds normally stay with their parents...
...girl was coaxed into a sound studio by a student disk jockey on the pretext that he wanted to tape her voice for a commercial. Then, turning hunter, he loosened the doorknob, and from the control room sent a screaming high-frequency sweep that scrambled his victim's brains. Two points...
...trapped in two suites. In the fifth-floor bedrooms of 602, Lawrence A. Thomas '66, John T. Nagurney '66, and Gerald P. Costanzo '67 are blocked by flames at the top of the stairs leading to the living room. They try to escape through the emergency exits, but the doorknob breaks off. They beat on the door with the broken knob until neighboring students open the door from the adjoining suite. Unnoticed, Robert L. Sinclair '67 remains asleep in his room...