Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Prize in the architectural competition fared no better. It was nothing short of scandalous to award the prize to Eero Saarinen's Chapel at M.I.T. for "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose." Although the interior has many praiseworthy features, the exterior is one of the chief eyesores of Cambridge--an ugly brick storage tank with foully proportioned arches set into it (see cut). Compare with it, for example, the Mexico City church erected several years earlier and shown in the other cut. The basic idea (which Saarinen thought original with...
...Dean Joseph Hudnut of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, compounded their insult by rating M.I.T.'s impressively daring Kresge Auditorium, adjacent to the Chapel and also by Saarinen, at the bottom of the list and emphasizing in their decision that "we wish it understood ... that the award is for the chapel building alone." They should be downright ashamed of themselves...
...highly competitive profession, where awards mean prestige, Eero Saarinen & Associates is a consistent winner. This spring the firm added another rich harvest of first-place laurels, including 1) the Grand Architectural Award from the Boston Arts Festival, for Saarinen's Massachusetts Institute of Technology cylindrical brick chapel (selected earlier this year by the National Council of Churches as one of the best churches built in the last 25 years); 2) first place in the top-drawer competition for the new U.S. London embassy (TIME, March...
...Manhattan, TIME Inc.'s Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce received the annual Gold Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. In his acceptance speech, Editor Luce listed five goals of mankind that Americans are prepared to work for: freedom of religion, peace with justice that permits change, freedom to seek truth, economic abundance, a democratic world...
Pusey will then award degrees to students in the University, saying, as tradition dictates: "By virtue of authority delegated to me, I . . . admit you to the fellowship of educated men." He will also award honorary degrees to distinguished persons in arts, letters, science, and public life...