Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that inspired the melancholy Dane, Sören Kierkegaard (1813-55), to raise the flag of philosophic revolt against all purely rationalist and positivist systems, and to declare that reality and truth are within man himself and his actions, whether they be rational or no. Kierkegaard argued that the central, all-important fact about man is the simplest one: his existence. But because man is the only creature who is self-conscious (in the literal sense, "conscious of himself"), he is the only one who can be consciously aware of his existence. From this flows the corollary: he thus becomes...
...Atlas that went into orbit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is technically called a 1½-stage rocket-a single engine plus ground-fired boosters. When its two booster engines stop firing, the main body, propelled by the central sustainer engine, flies out of the short cylindrical after-section that carries the boosters (see diagram). With the boosters gone, the sustainer engine has less dead weight to carry into space. In this particular model, the sustainer was designed to burn 13 seconds longer than in the regular models. Without this extra thrust, needed to put the Atlas into orbit, it would have...
...highest maintenance costs. The next year he won his first round. M.I.T. educated Architect William Zimmerman of Sarasota, 42, got the job of designing the twelve-classroom Brookside Junior High School. Zimmerman proceeded to divide his project into a campus of long, low-slung buildings attached to a central, triangular walk. He installed floor-to-ceiling school windows, protected by an 8-ft. overhang to keep sun from desks. But what wowed the school board was that the building came in $40,000 under the estimate. "When they saw the building, they were completely sold," says Hiss triumphantly. "Their minds...
...Riverview Junior-Senior High School, a 24-classroom, $1,204,945, two-story building by Yale's Architecture Department Chairman Paul Rudolph, 40. Built round a central courtyard. Rudolph's school uses exposed steel and white brick, copious canopies for sunshade...
Later, while teaching at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, another childhood influence returned to shape the major part of Feininger's art: it was his passion for American precision, as expressed in Manhattan's illimitable grid of straight streets, its now-vanished els, old New York Central trains with diamond-shaped smokestack and steam domes of polished brass, and Hudson River sidewheelers and yachts, of which he used to build faithful models. There, working side by side with fellow fantasists, topped by Paul Klee. and fellow precisionists, notably Josef Albers. Feininger evolved the weird, airy, many-faceted...