Word: designations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after his retirement from Harvard, Gropius has launched into a new burst of creativity. The Architects Collaborative (TAG), a group of keen younger architects he gathered around him at his Cambridge, Mass. headquarters, has all the commissions it can handle. The old Lawgiver has displayed an unexpected flexibility in design. "I was possibly too Puritan," he reflects. "Too much storming against the old traditions. Now I have, with the same conceptions, I hope, a more subtle, more delicate expression...
...controversy. The wounding wrangle that followed the suspension of Physicist Oppenheimer's security clearance made Lewis Strauss many an unforgiving enemy among the nation's scientists. Conservative Strauss angered champions of public power by insisting on confining AEC's nuclear-power role to research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which a private utility firm was supposed to build a power plant at West Memphis, Ark., right...
...military, will go to graduate school. Of the 55 per cent of the Class planning immediate graduate study, 33 per cent intend to enter GSAS, 30 per cent plan to study medicine, 20 per cent law, 6 per cent business, 3 per cent education, 3 per cent design, 2 per cent theology, 1 per cent dentistry, and 2 per cent plan to enter special schools. This breakdown is roughly equivalent to that of the Class of '58, except that it represents an almost 50 per cent increase over the Class of '58 in the percentage of graduates entering medical schools...
...Gnoli broke his pencils and joined an Italian road company as a "no-talent" actor. Spear carrying eventually led to a promising career in theater design. But art drew him back to Rome, where he conceived the best pictures in last week's show-austere descriptions in ink of the city's dark and quiet corners: a hand laundry where only the linen sparkles, an empty tavern where the chairs seem to converse...
Gnoli's strength is double-edged: he knows how to represent what he sees sharply and solidly; also he knows how to design. Light and darkness, tension and repose, surface textures and deep space all interplay with the stories his pictures tell...