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Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office) is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect, Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Miles van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...
...collection is not inferior to the Met's loan. In fact, probably the greatest early American paintings belong to the MFA: John Singleton Copley's portraits and Gilbert Stuart's Martha and George Washington have few equals (not to mention Boston's John Singer Sargent canvasses). If Van Der Weyden's Christ Appearing to His Mother makes the viewer sigh, he should take a look at home- Van Der Weyden's Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, in Boston's permanent collection...
...Monde, the treaty was a "turning point in the history of modern Europe." Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, called it an accomplishment of "farsighted boldness." Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the French publisher-politician, saw the pact as a "passport to the East, a preface to a policy of industrial penetration of the East by the West." German Historian Karl Kaiser said that it constitutes the first phase of a new security system in Europe...
...recently nominated for Vice-President of the American Institute of Planners. He founded and directed the Urban Field Service, which allows students to receive academic credit by working for community groups. The Urban Field Service has been praised by such diverse sources as Harvard's Wilson Report, Der Spiegel and Dean Kilbridge, who described U.F.S. as "one of the finest programs in the School...
Sober periodicals such as the intellectual weekly Die Zeit questioned the ad's statistics, and the business journal Handelsblatt attacked it as "a model of tastelessness." Popular reaction was less restrained. Der Spiegel was deluged by bitter letters of complaint...