Word: derring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Never before had the myth of German cleanliness been questioned so rudely, and the Bundesrepublik erupted in indignant protest. In a full-page advertisement in West Germany's weekly magazine Der Spiegel, a family of three was shown in impeccable dress-but all with pigs' faces. Beneath them were the words: "This year, in the average German family, the child will wear his underwear four days, the wife five days and the husband seven days." The ad was placed by the obviously phony "Action Committee for Fresh Underwear," presumably an invention of German soft-goods manufacturers...
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...
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 Mies van der Rohes' 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...
...their dining room, and they control most of the hiring and firing. Strohbach confers with the workers' council two or three times a day, but he retains the right to decide what products are made and how. The state may be his partner, but he insists: "Ich bin der Boss...