Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having had the privilege of working with Dr. Edwards, doing the initial programming design for his "Stakes & Odds" game, I was delighted to read your recent report on his work [April...
...black associate professor of economics, hopes to have U.C.L.A.'s planned Afro-American Studies Center in operation next fall as a complement to the university's intellectually distinguished ten-year-old Center for African Studies. Singleton sees the new center as "an evolutionary laboratory in which to design alternatives to current social institutions, a base from which to test these alternatives in nearby communities and a classroom in which to convert field findings into new courses back on campus." An obvious possibility: teaching white teachers how to teach Negro children...
...snow shovel is poorly adapted to its user. For the flabby, middle-aged and out-of-condition male it can be dangerous, since the position of its handle imposes an unnatural and unnecessary strain on the wrist, the arm, and consequently, the heart. A far safer and more efficient design, says Tichauer, would look like this...
Tichauer shows little interest in the marketing and profit potentials of his designs. In any event, many of them are unpatentable-a fact that may help explain why the industries that consult him sometimes treat his suggestions as trade secrets. As Tichauer himself says: "Efficiency is the by-product of comfort. The enterprise that manufactures no sore backs, shoulders, wrists or behinds is at a competitive advantage over one with suffering workers." But Tichauer's basic humanitarianism shows through his practicality. "I don't design," he insists. "I fertilize. And I prevent sore elbows." He seems quite content...
Japanese printmakers eliminated the insignificant partly as a matter of economic necessity. The making of a hanga was a laborious process. First, the artist brushed his design onto mulberry paper. Then the drawing was glued to a cherry-wood block. Next, two engravers incised the design upon the block. Several black-and-white prints were made from it, and these were then glued to other blocks that were incised in turn so that each could be used to print a single color. In the early 18th century, print-makers were largely limited to various vegetable-based inks...