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Wilson said Kissinger's role as architect for the Nixon Indochina policy "does not play any part" in the Department's decision. "The overriding concern here is whether he can contribute intellectually to the University" Wilson said...
...based on the belief that the strip, as well as places like Levittown, ultimately represent the aesthetic preferences of the middle class. And why, asks Venturi, should anyone attempt to elevate a client's value system with reference to Art or Metaphysics? Of course, Venturi knows that an architect such as I.M. pei who caters to elite tastes would never be happy on the strip. However, he assumes that everyone else would...
...opening of the preparatory meetings, which are expected to last until February or March, could hardly have occurred at a more appropriate moment in East-West relations. The surprisingly strong electoral victory of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, architect of East-West détente, cleared the way for the signing and ratification of a treaty establishing normal relations between East and West Germany (see following story). In Geneva the second phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks got under way last week, with the U.S. and Soviet Union working toward a permanent and sweeping agreement to limit strategic nuclear...
...Betjeman loves tiny Saxon churches whose masons "captured holy air and encased it in stone." Noting that some of his illustrations of modern buildings are "cautionary examples," he ends with a plea for the survival of the profession of architecture. "We should wish him well," Betjeman writes of the architect, "for he should be the only bar between us and the human anthill to which we may be reduced." (That sentence is also a plea for the survival of the subjunctive...
These worries seem past now. Theodore Musho, as I. M. Pei architect, expressed optimism yesterday that, with community support. Pei will produce great architecture. People are beginning to focus on the issues of coordinated development," he said. "Harvard Square will come...