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...restless unknown quantities in one room, no two of whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able to gauge the amount of interest, potential of comprehension, degrees of hostility, success of presentation and the need for ventilation, without any conscious effort on your part. You have a mass of antennae, which will spring to the alert position at the sight of any group gathered...
...Only a very few are thinking about getting out, yet only a few are smugly satisfied. There is, among these teachers, something of the attitude of the pioneer, of adventure rather than calculation. Many seem to have a conviction that there are worlds to conquer, and that, for the first time, there are means at hand to conquer them...
Next day the smiles faded. A Vatican spokesman said that Authenticator Porcella had indeed worked for the Vatican-for a short period more than 24 years ago on a guidebook. The Italian government, which keeps tab on its art experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore...
...League of Nations. He attended Tokyo's Imperial University, later worked with Architect Kunio Maekawa, a former Le Corbusier pupil. Tange's big chance came after the war, when in 1949 he won the national competition to build the Hiroshima Peace Center on the site where the first A-bomb was dropped. His solution for the museum, library and auditorium was typically Corbusian: a series of reinforced concrete structures set on stilts. But for the memorial itself Tange felt the need of something more evocative of Japan's past, decided on a massive concrete vault derived from...
...world of space-spanning shells. For Ehime's convention hall, he tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5,000. His Tokyo City Hall this year received the first International Grand Prix awarded by France's Architecture d'Aujourd...