Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many may still disagree with the President's concept of how the University can foster social change, but he explained it articulately and handled a two-hour fusillade of questions with steady composure. Inevitably the dialogue was only partially successful, but Pusey deserves credit for his willingness to face SFAC's questions...
...story skyscraper will be and the State had some idea that they might want to build something, at sometime, somewhere. The first thing we did was to go to Washington and change the decisions which had already been made both in Boston and Washington. We brought about the concept of the Government Center to replace Old Scollay Square. We then determined, that since a new city hall is built only about once a century, that it was better to build a building that was worthy of the City of Boston and which would hopefully blend in with historic Old Boston...
...calling an activist a Walter Mitty that the activist is only dreaming that he can change American society so that it will no longer be able to prosecute wars such as the one in Vietnam, then surely there is something rotten about society and about the President's concept of an individual's role...
...most novel part of the BDRG's work, and a completely new concept in student anti-war movement, is community organizing around the draft. Grizzard and John Maher '60 have been organizing since October in two Cambridge working class areas, the neighborhood around the BDRG office and the area between Putnam Ave. and M.I.T. bordered by Mass. Ave. and the Charles...
Clarity and purity have been esthetic ideals since Plato first began formulating the concept of perfection, but only in the past 40 years have sculptors begun creating works that are literally as clear and pure as air or water. Only in the past five have they successfully built them. For although plastic and glass designs were put together by Constructivist Naum Gabo and the Bauhaus' Laszlo Moholy-Nagy back in the 1920s, their results amounted to little more than experiments, designed to illustrate the constructivist tenet that space plays as vital a role in sculpture as mass. It remained...