Word: ultramodern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later, Ashe finished the administration building, put up the lavish Student Club, built out over a man-made lake eight miles southwest of the center of Miami. With gifts from local citizens' groups and a few Manhattan millionaires, he built ultramodern classrooms and breezeways. He lined his walks with palm trees, planted flowering rubber bushes, poinsettia and bougainvillea. This year Miami's enrollment climbed to a total of 10,000 students...
...while after the Russian Revolution, Gabo & Co. were the darlings of the Bolsheviks. Gabo went to work designing an ultramodern radio station. But one day in 1921, says Gabo, "all the studios were closed by the government, and we were forced out." Gabo went to Berlin. In a 1931 international competition, he entered plans for a new Palace of the Soviets which looked like an immense butterfly. They were rejected: by then, the Communist line had switched from ultramodern to ultra-stodgy art, and the butterfly was less appropriate than the old Russian bear. Gabo was through with Moscow...
...Mexico City, 10,000 workmen, artists and engineers labored last week to finish Mexico's biggest single construction job since the building of the Halls of Montezuma (circa 1500). For the 401-year-old University of Mexico, North America's oldest university,* they were creating a handsome, ultramodern University City, spectacularly expressive of the new, post-revolutionary Mexico. Scheduled for occupancy early next year, the dazzling, $50 million University City is the most up-to-date college campus anywhere...
...corner of the ultramodern glass and stone library, a group of Indian warriors in full headdress proffered bunches of cigars. There was a dumpy "Punch," a tailor's gentleman in checked coat and torpedo beard, a handsome mermaid from the stern of an old sailing ship and a jaunty figure labeled "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" extolling "World's Fair Cut Plug -Five Cents." Said a student engineer: "This is the kind of art I can appreciate...
...three years skeptical Frenchmen have watched Le Corbusier's ultramodern "Radiant City" taking form in the suburbs of Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948; June 12, 1950). They found plenty of fault with the 300-family apartment house. The quarters were cramped, the master bedrooms offered hardly any privacy from the living rooms, and windowless kitchens would make it hard for the pungent odors of French cooking to escape, or for French housewives to throw their garbage into the street. Last week, with the building nearing completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille...