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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characteristically, Gitelson tried to refuse the award, instead recommended his team leader but warned Macalester to hurry. "He's come close to getting blown up a couple of times," he wrote, "so you'd better grab him while he's still available." But Macalester stuck by its choice of Gitelson, and decided to give it to him in absentia...
Whatever the cost and whoever the decorator, the look that is in vogue in the '60s is openly, eclectic (see color pages). States Sears, Roebuck's Director of Design Richard D. Butler: "The period room is a thing of the past." With the prices of authentic antiques soaring as the worldwide supply diminishes, it was inevitable. The decorator, as a consequence, has become an artful mix master...
...only periods but also nationalities," says Albert Hadley, partner with New York Decorator Mrs. Henry Parish II, who proved it by deftly combining 17th century Oriental art, 18th century English furniture and a 20th century American carpet in the Charleston, W. Va., living room of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller IV. The driftwood shutters that Mrs. Parish designed for the "morning room" of Publisher John Hay Whitney's Manhattan town house signal another trend: heavy, floor-to-ceiling drapes are Out, and simpler, livelier window treatments...
...cutback in construction funds is sure to cause many colleges to delay expansion plans, and the corresponding increase in the other federal programs seems too small to offset rising costs. "We will certainly be worse off under this budget than we were under last year's," says Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planning...
...Peter D. L. Stansky, assistant professor of History and the course instructor, evidently takes intellectual change seriously. The last item on the reading list, which includes Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and E.M. Forster, is "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And it is required...