Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grateful, as any author would be, for the picture and for the space given to my book [Design for Power; TIME, Jan. 5]. But the review was a nasty and smart-aleck piece on a book which even the New York Times finds "earnest," "illuminating," and the best "overall interpretative survey in print." I do not question TIME'S right to print, if it chooses, in the interest of the general amusement, such a wholly misleading and unfair review of a serious book. I feel, however, that in such cases the author is entitled to a few lines...
...design of Princeton's college button is changed. It is now a tiger head with Princeton engraved upon the collar. (Feb.2...
Cries of "Buy Defense Bonds," or "modern design makes the big difference," will resound through the Yard this afternoon between 12:15 and 1:30 o'clock when the Civilian Defense Committee of Cambridge will try out its Dilk air raid siren on top of Widener Library...
Also shown in the display are examples of ornamental design in graphic art, a collection of silver by English eighteenth century silversmiths, early Islamic illuminations and paintings, in Krubbings of Cambodian relief sculptures, and a series of X-ray shadow-graphs, as a means of identifying painters' styles...
Today collectors and museums clamor for his canvases at $300 up, and he is a member of the haughty National Academy of Design (TIME, Jan. 12). With his at tractive brunette wife, seven-month-old son and two dogs, he lives in an elaborately furnished studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, spends his summers at Rockport, Mass., where he helps run an art school between laborious sessions at his easel. Though he is an inveterate pencil sketcher and a hawk-eyed observer of nature, he uses few models, does all his serious painting at night...