Word: americans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Painting: From its Beginnings to the Armory Show by Jules David Prown; The Twentieth Century by Barbara Rose. 269 pages. 2 vols. Skira. $50. How and why American art developed from West and Copley through Homer and Ryder to Pollock, De Kooning and Warhol. With anecdotes about each painter, these companion volumes provide a wieldy and informative analysis of art technique in relation to the nation's history...
Streets for People, A primer for Americans by Bernard Rudofsky. Illustrated. 351 pages. Doubleday. $14.95. A U.S. architect, engineer and enraged gadfly, Rudofsky thinks American city streets are now and always have been ugly, dirty and unfit for human habitation; and he offers fascinating pictures, mainly from Europe, to show how things could be improved. Rudofsky's pet hates: noise, cars, haste, uniformity, ugliness, greed and his fellow countrymen's habit of suggesting that criticism is unpatriotic. What he wants more of and thinks feasible are steps, arcades, automobile-free streets, covered sidewalks, plazas suitable for strolling...
...than that system took its male youth to fight and die for interests that were incomprehensible or vile to many of them. The distance of this mighty bureaucracy and its indifference to what its recruits thought or wanted never quite ?bed with what we were taught to think as "American...
...Defense Department may very well try to thwart the intent of this law-i.e., limiting the military's influence in American society-by claiming that even basic research is directly related to "a specific military function." John Womack Jr. 59, assistant professor of History and a member of the anti-Project minority on the Brooks subcommittee, said Wednesday that Harvard involvement in the Project "may amount to collusion" with the Defense Department in circumventing Section...
Since retiring from Harvard in 1952, he published two books-The American Colonial Mind and the Slassical Tradition and Seven Wise Men of Colonial America...