Word of the Day: contemplation

The word contemplation has appeared in 77 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on July 29 in “The Fight to Save New York’s Extravagantly ’80s Subway Entrance” by Dodai Stewart:

In a city where the typical subway exit unceremoniously deposits passengers on a grimy sidewalk, to ride the escalator up from the dingy train station and ascend into the luminous white hall is to be truly transported. But now there is a plan to demolish this eye-popping extravaganza, designed in the 1980s, and create a sleeker, more contemporary design.

Something about scrapping the atrium, which is flashy at best and garish at worst, inspires contemplation: In a city both crammed with history and constantly remaking itself, what is worth preserving? And are ’80s designs truly historically significant?

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