Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...About ten years ago, as the architect of much of the Great Society, you spoke about eradicating poverty and bringing the millennium to this country. Why didn't those masses of bills...
Died. Eliot F. Noyes, 66, tastemaking industrial designer, architect, artist and wholesale shaper of corporate images and buildings (IBM world's fair pavilions, Mobil's cylindrical gas pumps), whose abiding reverence was for pure functionalism and uncluttered, recognizable packaging ("Familiarity breeds acceptance," he once quipped); of a heart attack; in New Canaan, Conn...
Most of Turnberry's distinctive terrain was completely eradicated when the course was levelled and concrete airstrips laid down during World War II. The course was restored only as a result of the genius of the late Scotch golf course architect Mackenzie Ross and his associate Tom Simpson. Their partnership began when Ross, who had just won a tournament at which Simpson officiated, went over to admire the latter's Rolls Royce. Ross told Simpson that he could improve the car's appearance by moving the front numberplate below the cross bar. Simpson was so impressed by Ross's attention...
...idea of a living memorial opens unlimited vistas to monument-minded Americans. What about installing a young novelist in William Faulkner's house in Oxford, Miss.? A young architect in Frank Lloyd Wright's house in Oak Park, Ill.? A young physicist in Albert Einstein's house in Princeton, N.J.? A young semanticist in Casey Stengel's house in Glendale, Calif...
...Nineties," and its story began in 1898. In the version at Brandeis, director Gile has omitted a military scene at San Juan Hill in Cuba, though the Spanish-American War is still invoked; and he has, at show's end, eliminated all reference to the celebrated murder of architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw only a few feet away. But enough remains to guarantee that we are immersing ourselves in nostalgia on two levels...