Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architecture critic for The Boston Globe has written a letter criticizing the University for its "self-interested" approach to planning in its Interim Long Range Plan and for failing to consult Design School faculty in the plan's preparation...
Robert Campbell, a Cambridge resident and a graduate of the Design School, said in his October 22 letter to Donald Moulton, assistant vice president for community affairs, that the report seems "to be a more narcissistic document than would have appeared likely or even possible after the community confrontations of recent years...
Campbell's letter also pointed out that Harvard had failed to utilize its faculty at the Design School in preparing the report. "I am convinced that the result would have been much more sophisticated, more creative, and responsive to a much broader range of goals [had the Design faculty participated]," Campbell said...
...consumer, technological and agricultural problems. Pepsico is dispensing to thirsty Russians 200,000 bottles of soft drinks each day from a plant in Novorossisk. Coca-Cola may attempt to ease the critical Soviet food shortage by building vast greenhouses where crops will be grown in artificial climates. The U.S. design firm Raymond Loewy/William Snaith, Inc. is teaching the often stodgy Soviets to add contemporary touches to many of their products, including autos...
Nature said that the original SRI paper was "weak in design and presentation," that its details were "disconcertingly vague," that some methods used were "naive," and that the experimenters showed "a lack of skill." Nonetheless, after sending the paper back to SRI for modifications, the magazine finally decided to publish it. Why? It had been submitted by "two qualified scientists" with the backing of a major research institute; the subject was "worthy" of investigation; the paper would allow other researchers "to gauge the quality of the Stanford research and assess how much it is contributing to parapsychology...