Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This blank-walled structure houses the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (S.P.I.A.) which the University established in 1930. It is a cooperative enterprise of the departments of History, Politics, and Economics, designed to train students for government service, or the borderline fields of law, business, and journalism...
...S.P.I.A.'s architect, Stephen F. Voorhees, Princeton '00, gave two reasons for having the two much-criticized blank walls: a) to shut out the noise from the Washington Read traffic, and b) to preserve an old beech tree to the right of the building...
...like blank walls," Voorhees said, "I'm sorry...
...Japan, where tradition is nine-tenths of art, Western-style abstractions are often greeted with polite blank stares. But last week in the seaside city of Kamakura, 25 miles from Tokyo, art lovers were treated to some modernism that no one wanted to ignore. On view were more than 130 aggressively new objects, everything from paper lanterns and delicate ceramics to wildly abstract sculpture: a 10-ft.-high Centipede, something that looked like Humpty Dumpty with horns and a tail but was called Mister One Man, and something labeled Myself, which showed an almost featureless face topped by six pieces...
Complete rules for the contest, along with an official entry blank, will appear in tomorrow's CRIMSON...