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...Pride. Even some of the daring innovations seem questionable. For instance, all secretaries are given the interior glass walls; officials are relegated to the windowless exterior spaces. The concrete ramps (a favorite Le Corbusier device) and walkways that frame the central plaza add an unwanted clutter. The central, mushroomlike structure is shaped to give the mayor a sumptuous office and the city council an imposing, showcase chamber. But it tapers underneath, around the supporting stem, to fairly unusable space that is filled mainly with a blue-broadloom-covered circular staircase adorned with padded horsehair railings. "I guess...
...grey cabinets, closed-circuit TV equipment and banks of computers−all linked together by more than 10,000 miles of wire and 2,000,000 cross connections. The ground floor houses IBM 7094 II computers that monitor on-board systems of telemetry. On the second floor of the windowless structure is a master control room, with four rows of 20 consoles facing a huge world map on which the path of a spacecraft is projected. Above, on the third floor, is a second control room, permitting the center to run simulations of future flights while a real flight...
what I dared not hope or fight for is, in my fifties, mine, a toft-and-croft where I needn't, ever, be at home to those I am not at home with, not a cradle, a magic Eden without clocks, and not a windowless grave, but a place I may go both...
...group then picked its way down a windowless staircase, over workmen and plaster, and into the sunlight of the first floor. "My," a Reunioner whispered, "I hope the air conditioning never goes off." Babcock was showing them the TV studio, the IBM room, and the teaching machine room when the bells from neighboring Christ Church, an old grey building with windows, rang...
...William James Hall, the entire magnificent, deep-carpeted, tall-ceilinged fifteenth floor, whose terrace commands an unmatched view of Cambridge and Harvard, is devoted to faculty office space and a faculty conference-room. By contrast, the windowless basement is taken up by student classrooms and a lecture-hall. This peculiar distribution of floors does not provoke us to launch a Free Speech Movement at Harvard, but it does get us thinking along the lines of some of Mario Savio's complaints about the role of students at a university. It would perhaps be going too far to suggest the deportation...