Word: architects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials "both above and below" him at the White House. There are only three men above Dean in the chain of command: Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, chief of the White House staff-and Nixon. Others at the department contend that since Dean might turn out to be the main architect of the coverup, he should not be allowed to evade punishment...
Hiroshima Mon Amour. One of the earliest and most important films of the French New Wave. Alain Resnais's film begins with a French actress who falls in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima. The associations of love and war provoke a dislocation of memory and time. Emmanuele Riva brings forth a tremendous range of emotion, which is very evocative even on a first viewing, before subtle complexities begin to fall into place...
President Bok has stated, "What I really want to do is give the Yard the aura of a great grassy mall." What the architect has contrived is an appalling combination of a suburban shopping plaza, every golfer's nightmare of an eighteenth hole, and a mausoleum (perhaps designed for the 60 most active members of the GSTFU). When one consider the utopian promises of Stubbins and Associates, Disney World pales by comparison...
...University's library system should be dealt with in long-range master plan, rather than in a series of self-defeating and expensive forays into planned obsolescence. The desirability of further expansion underground or demolition of the President's home at 17 Quincy Street, as suggested by the architect, is highly questionable. A well-integrated high-rise structure, utilizing Lamont's existing below-ground foundation (eliminating the need for blasting) might be a more practical solution. (The new library at UMass-Amherst is a fine example of a university planning for its future needs.) In the meantime, Memorial Hall could...
Arrupe started toward that rendezvous in Hiroshima some two decades earlier in Madrid, where he had gone to study medicine. The only son among five children of a wealthy architect and newspaper publisher, he had grown up in comfort in the Basque city of Bilbao. The slums of Madrid shocked him: "I found terrible suffering−widows with children begging for bread, sick people begging for medicine, waifs running through the streets like stray dogs...