Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architecture is a broad and detailed response to society. It must be based on an accurate knowledge of that society through the discipline of sociology, economics, politics, and psychology," Yelton said. 'It seems incongruous that, here of all places, the building should be farmed out in the traditional fashion to an individual architect...
...would like to urge in the most earnest possible fashion that there be no effort by anyone, students in particular, to identify and oppose in any manner the individual participation by Faculty members in confidential or secret tasks of the government. There is a radical difference between this varied and individual work and the classified contracts for weapons development which I had in mind. This individual work covers a wide range of matters and much, or most, has no bearing on military activity. Most of it is the work of those Faculty members with the strongest instinct for public service...
...light of the concern of the school noted above, it seems incongruous that, here of all places, the building should be farmed out in the traditional fashion to an individual architect. If interdisciplinary collaboration is a serious concern, then shouldn't it be a part of the design of the school, which is its advocate...
...seems. At casual glance, the report is organized in proper bureaucratic fashion, and is written in proper sociological jargon. War is not simply an extension of diplomacy, it says, but a society's "principal political stabilizer." It functions as a "generational stabilizer" as well, enabling "the physically deteriorating, older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary." Because war supplies all these benefits, it is not to be abandoned casually. There must be a "believable life-and-death threat" as a substitute...
...country with little history of balletomania, the U.S. has made amends in grand fashion since 1945. In the post war years, the U.S. has brought forth first-rate dance companies in breath-taking abundance-and the latest to appear belongs near the top of the list. Currently in its first Manhattan engagement after three years of barnstorming, the Harkness Ballet has generated among audiences a brand of excitement that brings back memories of the early days of the New York City Ballet...