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...studio. We see the results at Castelli and Metro. They include a large bas-relief in aluminum depicting a horde of struggling Wall Street types: a Roman battle sarcophagus with updated clothes, flanked by ominous, smooth, black effigies of skyscrapers in perspective that recall the architectural renderings of Hugh Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry the theatrical idea. Longo is not much of a modeler; his striking talent for rendering does not extend into three dimensions, so that on closer inspection the faces and bodies in the sculpture are pedantically inert, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Three from the Image Machine | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt my life was in danger," claimed former Sgt. Lawrence Shafer. Yet Guardsman James W. Ferriss testified: "I saw no necessity to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Last Act at Kent State | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...lessened value of a degree on the job market, as well as the end of the draft, largely accounts for this declining enrollment. But there is another factor. Emory Sociologist Abbott L. Ferriss points also to the large and growing number of "dropouts, not just from school but from society-a hang-loose generation." There are now about 200,000 young men who are not in school but are not working. "Pinning down exactly what these young people are doing is very difficult," says Ferriss. "But the current suggestions are that they won't pick up college later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT MAN-- III What the Schools Cannot Do | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...Boston has not won a pennant since 1946, when Ted Williams hit .342, six other players batted over .300, and Pitchers Tex Hughson, Dave Ferriss and Mickey Harris combined to win 62 games. Last year the Red Sox ranked last in the American League in pitching and fielding, and second sloppiest in stranding base runners and grounding into double plays. The only thing that saved them from the cellar was the New York Yankees-by the slim margin of half a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: League of the Absurd | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...FRANKLIN FERRISS Circuit Judge St. Louis County Clayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1962 | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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