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With its well-proportioned central plaza and carefully orchestrated densities, however, Rockefeller Center is a clear descendant of classic cities, coherent and comfortably urban. The proposed Television City is--what? Towers in a park, sui generis, chess pieces (six pawns, a king, a bishop, a rook) that have slid off...
The holiest ghost at Notre Dame, Knute Rockne, used to say, "One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach." His reverent descendant, Frank Leahy, preached, "Prayers work better when the players are big." Their Protestant successor, Ara Parseghian, came to believe, "Notre...
Back in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin, Stumpf was already examining precisely the way bodies and furniture get along. The new name for his human-factor investigations, ergonomics, was not yet current, but Stumpf made charts, diagrams and, eventually, time-lapse films, becoming a sort of Muybridge of the...
It wouldn't be wrong to call In the Shadow of the Law a legal thriller, but it would sell the book short. There are suspenseful, devious plots aplenty--one about a last-minute death-row appeal, another about a corporation's dodging blame for an industrial accident--but it...
The Register, which is the flagship of the 32-paper Freedom Newspapers chain, owes its rebirth partly to its rival's success in Orange County. By the late 1970s, the Times had whittled the Register's lead from about 50,000 to 38,000 copies a day. Threshie, 54, who...