Word: fa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saarinen's contemporaries long ago discovered, there is a dynamo of relentless energy behind his easygoing façade. A round-the-clock worker, he sets such high standards of perfection that on occasion he holds his draftsmen and designers at their drafting tables straight through the night, is so prodigal with money for research that he recently spent $12,000 to win a competition that guaranteed only $4,000 in expenses. But judged by the results, Saarinen's total approach pays off. His work has won the applause of the glass and steel purists, yet pleased clients...
...Soviet slave labor camps) were released a fortnight later in fulfillment of a Soviet promise to the new Austrian government. In Vienna last week one of the Austrians, telling the story of the Mirnoye revolt, gave the West a useful reminder of the unchanging reality behind the redecorated Soviet fa...
...London struck me as a city of black and white," Saarinen says. To emphasize the play of light and shadow across the broad, 330-ft. façade, he worked out a structural grill that takes its rhythm from the window spacing of surrounding Georgian structures. For his major material Saarinen chose white Portland stone, traditional both in London's official buildings and as ornament on private brick dwellings. To sharpen the black and white contrast, he used black oxidized bronze for a decorative frieze of state seals between the first and second floors and for a great seal...
...with individual patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented to the outside world...
Also holding their first meetings are ten courses for the first time offered this term: English Fa, English Kb, English Kb, Engineering Science 142, French 127, Government 104, History 138, History 167, Semetic 166a, and Social Relations...