Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visual arts category, five recipients received money: the Harvard Radcliffe Architecture and Design Group for an environmental arts competition; the Dudley House Art Gallery for student exhibits; Maria Agui '87 for an original film-poem to deconstruct the traditional image of women in art; and Camille Landau '90 for a late-night student art gallery...
Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien, the main force behind Harvard's health-care planning, said yesterday that he has been spending 25 percent of his time "deciding how to go about the design of a plan and share information with other colleges...
...first George Washington and that singular French genius Pierre l'Enfant planned a "President's palace" five times larger than the present structure. But many Americans were opposed to such monarchical pretensions, so Washington acquiesced. When workmen came to him in 1792 with L'Enfant's grand design for a capital city in which the President's house was to be at the center, Washington paced the ground and set the stakes marking the north wall of the more modest residence designed by James Hoban, which Theodore Roosevelt would dub the "White House...
Author Seale rates the eminently forgettable Millard Fillmore as having had the best head for design and doing as much as any other President to improve the White House grounds and the beauty of Washington. The mounds on the South Lawn are not Jefferson's after all, says Seale, but the result of dumping excess dirt from excavation for the Treasury Department when Franklin Pierce was President...
...Seale's diligence, mysteries still abound. Did a courthouse in Charleston, S.C., inspire George Washington and lead to the White House design? Seale thinks so, but there is no exact record. One mystery was solved: the reason for a lonely stone fountain on White House ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation...