Word: architects
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Reading those numbers, Kevin Phillips, a Nixon campaign aide and architect of the Southern strategy, saw the future, and it worked. In his book The Emerging Republican Majority, he predicted an unbeatable G.O.P. coalition of Southern and Western voters united by their resentment of Northeastern power and their fear of urban blacks. "A new era has begun," he promised. And it had. As Michael Lind points out in his new book Up from Conservatism, after the 1934 congressional elections, the first of the New Deal era, the South had virtually no Republicans in Congress. Now it has more Republicans than...
DIED. FRANKLIN ISRAEL, 50, West Coast architect whose bold, colorful designs sought to embody the vibrancy of Hollywood; from AIDS complications; in Los Angeles...
...courses, or it should create an all-encompassing course that includes all of the arts. Harvard students are graduating without knowing anything about art or anything about music, and even in cases where they have learned one of the two solidly, their knowledge is often restricted to one architect or five great pieces. Forget about the "methods and approaches to knowledge" clause in the description of the Core. Let us focus instead on tangible pieces of music, solid hulks of sculpture, well-designed buildings--and lots of them...
...take the form of mass impact. Martha Stewart's inexhaustible brand of domesticity claims a sizable audience. So do Jerry Seinfeld's small-bore irony and Oprah Winfrey's irresistible empathy. There is influence within a creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill...
...were not long out of our teens, and we were really starting out," reminisces Sturgis, who is now an architect...