Bella Moses’ construction instinct showed in concrete everyday design details

Evidence

The eyes could glitter with enthusiasm over the smallest details. When the board agreed to provide living quarters for House staffers, it was Bella Moses who thought of providing the quarters with a lounge so the young men and women could have a place to chat together during their off hours—and it was Bella who went out and found the perfect centerpiece for the lounge, a heavy table six feet across supported by a pedestal instead of legs so that people could sit around it more easily. When the board decided to set up a temporary summer camp in Pelham Bay Park, it was Bella who thought of putting old rugs under the beds to make the tents warmer. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 138

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bella Moses was a builder at heart, drawn to physical construction over abstraction — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 137

Broader Connections

• Bella Moses was a builder at heart, drawn to physical construction over abstraction #corroborates (0.92) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 137