Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already trimmed down offices around the world, from Hong Kong to the Geneva headquarters of Interpublic's international operations. Gone are such nonadvertising units as a publisher of business books and a company set up to develop new business for Interpublic. Fashion International, a design-consultant subsidiary with offices in Paris and New York, as well as McDonald Research Ltd. of Canada, went under. Chicago Group Inc., a special-projects unit, was absorbed by Mc-Cann-Erickson's Chicago office, while one of Interpublic's nine advertising agencies, Fletcher Richards, was merged with Marschalk & Co. Ancillary units...
When the Computer Center was first built, in 1946-47, there was considerable interest in the design of computers. Now, says Dix, "we're only interested in using them." Software--specialized programs--has replaced hardware--computers--as the Center's main area of innovation...
Operating on a tight budget, the Corporation has still been able to hire a first rate firm, Architects' Collaborative, to draw up the project's design. The Corporation is also pushing to get City Hall to declare City Stables the site of an Urban Renewal Project. If the site can't be purchased under the Urban Renewal program, rent for the housing will have to jump $15 per month...
...material once thought improper. Morris shines through the pages as a prodigious Victorian, one of a long line of self-confident zealots whose faith and energies gave them a stature that the modern mini-man can only wonder at. A dozen specialist scholars -in politics, poetry, architecture, painting, interior design, cabinetry, fabrics-would be needed to catalogue his achievements. The aim of his life was to restore craftsmanship and beauty to a deprived industrial working class. He was concerned with the deep discrepancy between the dark satanic mills of industrial England and the idyl (real or imagined) of rural life...
...presents a picture of Morris happily at work at his easel, humming a song that he had deciphered from a manuscript, turning aside to make a drawing on another table, sitting down to scratch out a few lines of verse or fable or jot down notes for a wallpaper design or a manifesto or a Homeric translation, then, tired at last, descending a staircase, perhaps of his own design, to bring up an armful of wine to entertain his friends at a boisterous dinner...