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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a national commission that comes as close as any body to speaking for the nation's educators as a whole, formally condemned the 8-4 plan, recommended 6-4-4 as a design for U. S. public education. The group was the National Education Association's Educational Policies Commission. The report* was written by fat-jowled. conservative Professor George Drayton Strayer of Columbia's Teachers College. Prime argument for this plan, which has long been championed by University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, is economic: it neatly disposes of the generation...
...resembled a Greek shrine; today's favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual capacity of six Du Ponts, it was planned by A. I.'s architect son, Alfred Victor du Pont...
Thinking my eyes were deceiving me, I measured the design with a pair of calipers and find there is 3mm. difference between the horizontal and vertical meridians...
...owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre and a half, its roof supported by three interior pillars and a colonnade. The Shed's acoustics are so excellent that an orchestral pianissimo can be heard by an overflow audience outside the colonnade. Last week, during the first...
...Sheeler spent six weeks in 1927 photographing the Ford plant at River Rouge. Doubting critics to whom Charles Sheeler's industrial paintings seem to deviate from photographic realism only in their fine selectivity and arbitrary color values may disagree with Biographer Rourke about the degree of three-dimensional design underlying them. More clearly a fusion of abstraction and realism are earlier paintings of farmhouse interiors, later paintings of patterned objects in Artist Sheeler's home at Ridgefield, Conn. Few critics will deny that his work proves Sheeler an exquisite draftsman, an orderly spirit and a sophisticated...