Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a rubber stamp for student demands, and its members made some fundamental revisions in the course before they approved it. Most important was the shift in concept from a Cleaver-dominated course (Cleaver continued to claim "It's going to be my course") to a forum, in which Cleaver's lectures would be criticized and analyzed by other professors in section meetings...
...podium, or semi-basement, is occupied by the burgeoning permanent collection, but the upper gallery, designed for special exhibitions, dominates the museum. It is simplicity itself: a glass-curtained box with a 213-ft.-square roof upheld by only eight burnished-steel columns. Mies has carried out his concept with subtlety. The columns, for instance, are tapered ever so slightly toward the top-as are the Parthenon's classical Doric columns. Although the museum's 6-ft.-thick roof looks perfectly flat, it too is designed to deceive the eye. The center has been slightly raised so that...
When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers predicted would never work. Last week, 21 months and many millions later, the skeptics were proved right. Boeing is now scrapping its movable wing. To take its place, the company has decided on a stationary swept-back configuration that bears more than a passing resemblance to Lockheed's original "delta" wing design...
...selected the company for the SST plum on New Year's Day of 1967, it had scrapped one movable wing design and substituted another. When new problems mounted, the company earlier this year ordered its engineers back to the drawing boards in an effort to salvage the original concept. Gradually, confided a Boeing executive, it became apparent that keeping the swing-wing would "reduce the payload to the point where the plane wouldn't be profitable...
...with its new model, Boeing will have to pare down the plane's passenger capacity to 250. That will still be a sufficient payload to make the plane profitable, however, and will enable the craft to achieve the designed range. The new version, employing the familiar fixed-wing concept, should also take less time to build. That is particularly important, since the slower (1,550 m.p.h.), delta-wing Anglo-French Concorde, a rival SST entry, is scheduled to make its first test flight this fall and start commercial service in mid-1971, five years earlier than...