Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What might be in order is a House which asserts Harvard's debt to the great traditions of European building--architectural styles which must always be viewed in context of a general Zeitgeistlicheweltanschauung. One thinks immediately of the ultimate synthesis, a Greek temple with flying buttress. Such a structure would squat gracefully across Boylston Street and express the ever-existant tension between the real and the ideal...
Absolutes. Last week's program featured the works of European composers. Italian Composer Luciano Berio's Homage to Joyce consisted of unintelligible recitations of the final pages of Ulysses. Also included were such numbers as the airy Suite in the Form of a Mushroom; Untitled, an explosive collection of train noises; and Dialogue for Man and Machine, which, in addition to the whoo-whoo effect and the obscure philosophizing about matchwood, contains this mysterious admonition...
...paintings in Washington. Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European art, Corcoran himself chose to concentrate on the new American painters. Stabs and grabs at Europe by later benefactors have filled the Corcoran (on Washington's 17th Street, near the White House) with surprise items ranging from Sienese altar panels to French impressionists. Yet the heart of the Corcoran...
...Three automakers are deep in crash programs to get into the market with small, compact cars. As small European and U.S. cars grabbed 15% of the market, American Motors presented fresh evidence of how profitable the market is. American's President George Romney reported that in the fourth quarter of 1958 the company earned $21 million, or $3.56 a share, nearly as much as it cleared in the previous twelve months. Studebaker-Packard's Lark sold so well in the first ten days of January that the company for the fourth time has raised its production...
...almost one-third less than the weights of the 1959 Ford, Chevy and Plymouth. This in turn will mean up to 25 miles per gallon of gas, an economy factor that will get more important as gasoline taxes go up. Yet the cars will not be minimum, European-style transportation. They will include U.S. features such as wrap-around windshields, offer most of the optional equipment now available in big cars...