Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background ("I am a Gung Ho pilot and a physicist third class"), Hayward was handed his job in R. & D. when the Navy created the division in 1957, has since been one of the strongest proponents of a unified national space program...
...stuffy life of upper-class responsibility when his fellow junior aristocrats at Sweden's swank Lundsberg boarding school began to mock him as a runt (he is now 5 ft. 7 in.). Nycop was so embittered by the attacks that he rebelled against his convention-bound background, to become a news-and-be-damned reporter. In 1938 he was tapped by Bonnier to start the LiFE-like picture weekly Ssee, soon showed an executive's firm hand for organization, an editor's sure touch for pictures and pithy sentences...
...also in those relying upon artistic creativity. The efforts and results of the GSD and Arch. Sci. Department in the teaching of the visual arts assumes particular importance in a society whose increased awareness and concern for the role of the visual arts is especially notable against the background of nearly complete neglect which characterized its attitude towards these fields in the past...
...spiritual requirements. This order is achieved by the intelligent and sensitive use of forms, structures, enclosures, surfaces, and colors, which make for better and more beautiful environments." Arch. Sci. provides an initiation into this realm. The broad range of courses offered aims to fill in a student's background in the field of visual arts and introduce him to some of the social implications of design. The outcome, Newton insists, is a polity of intelligent citizens aware visually of their social and spiritual environment...
...importance assigned by the GSD to workshop type courses is evident from its desire that entering students should display some such in their background. Indeed there have been sporadic suggestions in the past that a similar course in visual design be required of all undergraduates, as it is at many other institutions. Unlikely as it is, such a suggestion reflects the concern of many that the normal academic education neglects this field, which is a major element in our contemporary society...