Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night at city hall, the 70-year old Vellucci was up to his old tricks. A long-time critic of Harvard's encroachment into the city, Vellucci asked the nine-member city council to consider reclaiming the land spanning Cambridge St. between the Science Center and Harvard Yard...
...architectural ultimate. "With Mies," wrote MOMA's Drexler in 1960, "architecture leaves childhood behind." In fact, it seems that Mies' example, brilliant in itself, provoked a prolonged architectural adolescence, a period when a stylistic conformism was enforced. To be modern, a building was obliged to wear what Critic Reyner Banham calls the "teenage uniform" of the International Style. That sort of architectural peer pressure is gone. The vital, messy pluralism now prevalent may not make for neat history, but it might produce better cities...
...began seeking the accident's cause. "We grieve at NASA," said Jesse Moore, its associate administrator for space flight. "We grieve every day." A presidential commission headed by former Secretary of State William Rogers opened its investigation with a protective attitude toward NASA. Rogers even publicly badgered an internal critic of NASA's safety standards about his competence to criticize. Surely it would eventually be found that, despite NASA's elaborate precautions, some technical aberration had caused the tragedy...
Enrile also has a reputation for being reform-minded. Over the past two decades he has emerged as a discreet internal critic of the Marcos government, even though he was an architect and implementer of the 1972 martial law crackdown. Although Enrile had never openly criticized the President until now, despite a humiliating loss of power to General Ver, which Marcos ) sanctioned, as long as two years ago he had begun privately to confide his concerns about Ver's broad powers. If Marcos again declared martial law, he said, he would feel compelled to quit his post...
...first became known outside Sweden in the 1960s, as an outspoken critic of the U.S. role in Vietnam...