Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned to a number of the most lustrous and far-out contemporary master builders: Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. They adhered to no single style, only to the modern mood, which freely explores how steel, glass and reinforced concrete can most beautifully be bent to shelter man. Their stunning results have made Yale more of a laboratory than a museum...
...course, the visually-oriented student can always associate with others of the same bent, but before this year there was no logical place for people interested in art as creators or simply appreciators to gather. As a result, there has been relatively little communication among Harvard's artists. This has prevented them from exchanging ideas and information and has drastically confined the range of criticism they receive...
...exulted the Journal. "The stories of her flight came to the EVENING JOURNAL and in none of them was there anything except a jest at the unseen one who traveled with her and who always laughs last. Men call him Death." At a city hall reception, Dorothy bent to kiss New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and then dashed off several reprises of her trip. "Well, what have I done?" she asked her readers. "I'm the first woman to have flown around the world. I circumnavigated the globe in 24 days, twelve hours and 51 minutes. This...
...visiting professor, Figueres seems bent on impressing Harvard with the immediacy of Latin America's problems. "Harvard," he confesses, "is a real challenge. While I've lectured a great deal, I've never actually taught a course at an American university." Prefacing his lectures with a word about the morning's news from Latin America, he gears his discussion to the moment. "The Alliance for Progress is not making the impression it should," he laments, "because it didn't come soon enough. Now the prices of our exports on the world market are depressed. The Alliance really failed when Stevenson...
...better part of six years Figueres remained in the United States. Bent on a career of his own, he returned his family's checks and supported himself translating technical documents. In New York he continued his informal studies, reading Ruskin, the Fabians, and Laski with particular avidity...