Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pushing campus borders well beyond the gates of Harvard Yard, Pusey and his Architects Collaborative abandoned the traditional Georgian Revival style--so closely associated with red-brick Harvard--and opted for more modern. Internationally flavored architecture Harvard also began to commission nationally, acclaimed architects to design the University's very first skyscrapers...
...cast 25 years, a crescent of new academic structures has sprung up between the Freshman Union and Littauer Center north and cast of the Yard Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the sole building designed by Le Corbusier in the U.S. nudged its way in between the Fogg Museum and the Faculty Club in 1961. A little further down Quincy St. the imposing, minimalist George Gund Hall became home for the Graduate School of Design...
...currently ending a four year stint as chairman of the Board of Overseers visiting committee on the Kennedy School. He also sits on the visiting committees of the Graduate School of Design and the Fogg Museum...
...like etudes than formal compositions. Anderson tried her hand at sculpture before evolving her distinctive combination of music, narrative, films and slides. In The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, which received its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1973, Wilson welded elements of painting, set design, music, ballet and pantomime into a single twelve-hour work. Many found it initially difficult to come to terms with the avant-garde's startling modernist images, such as Stalin's dance for 19 ostriches or its chorus line of caricatured black mammies swaying to the strains...
...part of the President's political ascendancy lay in sensing that Government needed to become a forum of denial. The late Dean Acheson defined it as the necessity of "administering scarcity." Joe Califano, who under Johnson and Carter helped design this huge Government, foresaw a time when the cost of programs would outstrip the nation's ability to pay for them. Learning to think small, Califano warned six years ago, could be a traumatic experience...