Word: bipedalism
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Walker topped off his art schooling with a John Harvard scholarship and a chance to study in Italy for three years with Renaissance Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Walker recalls the period as "sheer, undiluted bliss." Equally pleased with his prize pupil, "B.B." calls Walker "my favorite biped." In 1935 Walker was...
ANYONE willing to go along with the proposition that a house is an Energetic Environment Valve, and that man is, among other things, "a self-balancing 28-jointed adapter-base biped" will find himself right at home with Richard Buckminster Fuller. Bucky Fuller is a super-technologist whose mission in...
Although, as with Leonardo, there is no limit to Bucky's interests, and no domain he cannot think himself into or out of, many of his most energetic ideas center in how best to shelter the human race. A house is an energetic environment valve because man, the 28...
After a brief welcome to the gathering by First Marshal Chase N. Peterson, Lester L. Ward called "man, that biped with the neural Stich, still a basically humorous character," in the Class Oration.
The focal character of most Thurber-prose and drawings is a reticent, befuddled, thwarted little man who tries sadly to preserve himself and his reason against a practically worldwide onslaught. Grim psychiatrists, gadgets that "whir and whine and whiz," erratic servants, domineering women, unfriendly dogs, ghosts, foreigners -all are in...