Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gilmore P. Clarke, nationally known New York landscape architect and a member of the Board of Design of the 1939 World's Fair of New York City will speak on "The World's Fair" in Hunt Hall at 8:15 o'clock Friday...
Earlier in the same evening Mr. Clarke will be guest of honor at a supper banquet tendered him by the Lopiarian Club of the School of Design...
...undoubtedly the world's greatest living architect, a man who can dance circles around any of his contemporaries," said Mr. Mumford. "Architecturally . . . the chief claim of the World's Fair on the attention of posterity will be the preposterous fact that Wright was not called in to design...
With one projected piece of sculpture Mr. Connick had no quarrel: the monumental, distinguished design for a new goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving...
...poem, that of Charles Stuart Pratt's "Daniel Gabriel Rossetti," up to the gigantic two-volume edition of the Oxford Lectern Bible which appeared in 1935. The use of different type faces characterize Rogers' fine editions and along with examples of his work, his reason for using the particular design is given. Among the varieties of type is found his own widely known Centaur...