Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference, Vishinsky explained why he considered Yugoslavia's candidacy part of a "sinister underhand design." Article 23 of the U.N. Charter, he pointed out, required that nonpermanent Security Council members be elected "with due regard" to "geographical distribution." According to a U.N. "gentlemen's agreement,"claimed Vishinsky, this article in practice bound the Assembly to accept the nominees chosen by each regional group; i.e., a caucus of Latin American countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia...
...television maker wanted him to draw up sketches for a new line of cabinets. "Fine," said Loewy. "I spent $2,000 on my own set and it hasn't worked right since I bought it." From Glamour magazine came a phone call: How about an article on theater design? "Wonderful," said Loewy. "I've been waiting for a chance to tell everyone what's wrong with theaters." Then Loewy paced nervously through the various cubicles where his associates were planning new designs for everything from tiepins to locomotives...
...pursued the simple principle that every object can have an ideal form which, with economy and grace, can express its function. Through centuries of trial & error many of man's simplest tools −the ax helve, the plowshare, the ox yoke −had achieved a utilitarian perfection of design. In essence, industrial design was a brave attempt to bring the same simplicity to all the goods and tools of modern living. The depression, when industrialists were willing to try anything to boost sales, gave the designers their first big chance to show what they could...
Since Matisse first conceived the chapel (TIME, Jan. 3), the ailing but happy old man has altered his plans for it again & again. The design for its eight narrow stained-glass windows of half-abstract leaves and cactuses done in blue, yellow and green was worked out by pinning colored scraps to long rolls of brown wrapping paper tacked to the walls of his hotel suite at Nice. The interior design was also the work of months; as now planned, its white marble floor and black-line Matisse murals drawn on white tiles will glow with colored light from...
...Student Council of the Graduate School of Design will present an informal dismission of the theme, "Is there a Modern Architecture Part Line?" at 8 p.m. tonight in Hunt Hall. The subject will be introduced by Jean Paul Cartlhan, instructor in the School of Design...