Word: coif
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp, France, with a roof shaped like a nun's coif (the shape also helps to project a preacher's voice). His only U.S. building is at Harvard, a Visual Arts Center perched on pilotis, with a wing shaped like the body of a guitar. His last project was a design for an $11 million hospital that would...
...years, the Order of the Coif* has awarded coveted gold Coif Keys to some of the country's brightest law students. Last week the legal fraternity began honoring another kind of excellence: legal writing. The need is clear. At its jargon-free best, legal literature inspires the court decisions that shape U.S. society. Yet legal writers usually toil obscurely for arcane law reviews. Even when they publish books, their reward is likely to be petty cash and a paucity of public praise...
...Triennial Coif Award ($1,000) is for legal writing "that evidences creative talent of the highest order." Selected by six leading legal lights, such as Justice Roger J. Traynor of the California Supreme Court, the first recipient is Duke University's shy, witty, brilliant Law Professor Brainerd Currie, 52, author of 1963's Selected Essays on the Conflict of Laws, a seminal, formidable tome that Currie characteristically dedicated "To My Wife, who has suffered more from these essays than any mere reader...