Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nowadays. But in two of the clubs said to be modeled on English tradition high tea and all that the paper comes before the ultimate pleasure the business being out of the way to allow for serious matters. I discovered that one of these clubs came to this sensible design late in its annuals, when on one occasion the speaker, happily bibulous found that the pointer he has brought along to illustrate his talk could he better used to hold himself up right...
...Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, Tariff and Trade Affairs and Operations. Two other members of the Domestic Council also shifted: Egil Krogh Jr. was named Deputy Secretary of Transportation, and John C. Whitaker became Under Secretary of the Interior. These changes are part of the Nixon design to put trusted White House loyalists in charge of the bureaucracy. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an education professor at Harvard and a White House Counsellor for two years under Nixon, was originally slated to be the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. That did not work out, but now Moynihan will...
...pendulum of taste is beginning to swing in the other direction. To many eyes, there is nothing so gaudy, nothing so gauche, as a huge solitaire diamond-and there is nothing so exquisite as an artfully crafted bauble. A growing number of jewelry designers here and in Europe are creating a New Jewelry that depends on purity of line, elegance of form, grace of motion to make its uncluttered point. Using materials less rare and less intrinsically valuable than gems-silver, bone, ivory and wood-their work is stark, simple and sculptural. Encrustation is gone; design, once more, is everything...
...produced by means of scenes, through observation of which the mind may be more or less lifted out of moods and habits into which it is, under the ordinary conditions of city life, likely to fall." Frederick Law Olmsted's words on his noble design for Manhattan may ring with some irony in a New Yorker's ears today as he promenades his German shepherd past a sniffling junkie on a park bench and settles down to meditate on the future of rus in urbe among the tattered newspapers and paper cups surrounding some graffiti-sprayed rock...
...other two workshops will deal with careers in health, medicine and science and careers in education, social services, communication, the arts, design and planning...