Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kahn, the great moment in architecture was when "the walls parted and the column became." But he does not believe that columns need look like classic colonnades-all form and no function except to support the roof. He has planned one towering office structure that looks like giant Tinker Toys studded with pyramid-shaped joints that are used as service areas. "I like my buildings to have knuckles," he explains. "Joints are the beginning of ornament." He has also used daring devices in more down-to-earth buildings. His Yale Art Gallery, for example, uses exposed reinforced concrete tetrahedrons...
...tools into the little Italian town of Sambuco. the apostle of the groin meets the sultan of sauce. When he is not fearsomely hallucinated or agonizingly hung over from his binges, Cass Kinsolving rants at his century. He predictably hates the U.S., Ike, commercialism, conformity and just about everything except the recordings of the late Leadbelly, which he plays by the hour while his wife and four children go hungry. The knave in Mason strikes a bargain with the fool in Cass, and with almost inadvertent demonism, they destroy an innocent girl...
...toward his family's summer home in Hyannisport, on Cape Cod, for a big family celebration with the multitudinous Clan Kennedy. The occasion: Jack's 43rd birthday, this week. It would be a milestone for a candidate who had beaten down almost every other charge against him except the unavoidable one that to some of the party's elders, he seemed too young to be a winner at the polls, even against a Richard Nixon...
Even opposition leaders, who had been arguing that Khrushchev needed greater understanding and sympathy, were shocked by his brutal intemperance. In Britain, Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell placed himself unequivocally behind Macmillan. In France, every party except the Communists blasted Khrushchev. West Germany's Socialists, whose whole foreign policy has been based on the argument that Germany could be reunified if only Adenauer would withdraw from NATO and forswear rearmament, gulped, choked, then manfully reversed a policy of ten years' standing. Only a policy of Western strength, admitted a party spokesman, had deterred Khrushchev from pressing his demands...
...schizophrenia, that afflict an estimated 1% of the working force. Such disturbances, they contend, are the real causes of many of industry's most common employee difficulties: alcoholism, accidents, resistance to authority, high job turnover, shirking, chronic complaints. Emotional illness causes more absenteeism than any other illness except the common cold, and psychiatrists believe that 70% of all those fired for other reasons (fighting with the boss, sloppy work) are actually suffering from emotional disorders...