Word: architects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. CLARK CLIFFORD, 91, consummate Washington insider; in Bethesda, Md. Tall, elegant and impeccably attired, Clifford advised four Democratic Presidents, using a knack for crystallizing issues to advocate causes from civil rights to environmental protection. An architect of Harry S Truman's 1948 election victory, he later counseled winding down the Vietnam War as Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary. Says TIME's Hugh Sidey: "He had a genius for reducing things to their simplest terms but fell to a tragic and false sense of invulnerability." Clifford's chairmanship of a bank embroiled in international scandal led to 1992 criminal charges...
Among Galbraith's many accomplishments was his service as price czar under President Roosevelt during the great depression. In this capacity, Galbraith was a principal architect of the New Deal, an economic relief effort that called for increased government spending to stimulate the economy and narrow the gap between rich and poor...
...Notable Architect: Charles Eliot, then president of Harvard...
Pitkin said he was impressed the University was "responding in what would appear to be a serious manner to the problems [pointed out by the community] and the findings of their architect," Henry N. Cobb '47 of the New York-based architecture firm Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners...
Harvard officials also brought up the notion of discussing "improvements" to the Fogg and Sackler museums in conjunction with discussion of the Knafel project that will soon come to include a public meeting with the architect. The date of those meetings was unclear last night...