Word: circularity
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...view of the imaginative school authorities at Greeley, Colo., conventional schoolhouses are square. So Greeley, in what is perhaps the most recent radical transformation of a school district's plant, has built four new schoolhouses that are circular or hexagonal. Moreover, they have no windows, and one of them has carpets on all the floors. "We know that a good teacher and a good blackboard are the fundamentals of teaching," says Leslie K. Grimes, school superintendent in Greeley. "But we also think that the good teacher can do better in a comfortable, air-conditioned room without noise and glare...
...visiting Greeley this fall to learn and imitate, see two schools that are round, with wedge-shaped classrooms surrounding cores of service rooms; another that is a cluster of three hexagons with cable-hung, sprayed concrete roofs; and a fourth-Sherwood school-that consists of four adjoining circular structures all containing V-shaped classrooms, plus an equal-size domed play area with infrared heating for cold days. Sherwood school is thickly carpeted in a beige, all-wool "acoustical floor covering." Parents call it the Sherwood Hilton, but Grimes is quick to tell them that the $21,000 cost...
Often, esthetics enters usefulness by the back door. The late Dr. Peter Schlumbohm used the chemical principle of filtration to make the trim Chemex coffeemaker, then simply placed a disk of filter paper inside a circular housing to make a new kind of fan. Spun by a motor, the rippling paper edges cast air through the rim by centrifugal force. A ban vivant of the first order, Schlumbohm made a rapid, but esthetic, champagne cooler just because he felt bachelors should not be caught short when unexpectedly entertaining women...
...occult but enlightened aristocracy of her mother and the shrewd dollar-sign language of her father; her two brothers, Tony and Tom III (the latter died in 1959), were both much older and were away at school. Then in 1918 Minnie Lee Taylor fell down the length of the circular staircase in the old brick house and died-and Lady Bird was left with Cap Taylor...
...first plateau, Savoy and Santander found a luxurious palace and at least 16 separate communities-built mostly of granite and limestone, and complete with fountains, gardens, courtyards, large terraced dwellings apparently used by Inca nobles, and 100 or so squat circular huts that probably housed lower-class Indians. True to archaeological expectations, a strong Spanish influence was evident-the result, old records suggest, of seven Spanish turncoats who came to live in the Inca capital. In the palace were two rooms with a Spanish-style connecting doorway rather than the single courtyard entryway that typifies pure Incan architecture. Savoy also...