Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools, one of the most revolutionary is the new elementary school in Scarsdale, N.Y. In planning it, say Architects Perkins and Will, "we concentrated on the innards of the child." The classrooms are in clusters, like petals about a flower, but each cluster is removed from the main part of the building. To get the shape of the classrooms, Perkins and Will experimented with full-scale diagrams on a gym floor. The circle and square, they decided, were too imprisoning; the pentagon was drab, the octagon confusing. The architects' final decision: the hexagon...
...favored by Denver architects 40 years ago, it sits right up against its neighbors and is separated from the street only by a short, steep terrace and a patch of fine green lawn. Its wide porch is equipped with a glider and wicker chairs; red geraniums grow in low flower boxes on the railings. Last week, in this unremarkable survival of the parlor era, 75-year-old Mrs. Doud was putting up her daughter and son-in-law, who had come all the way from Washington, D.C. to spend their summer vacation with...
...father gave him a book on flowers, but Alfred found a flower that wasn't in the book. That was the beginning of his passionate curiosity about nature. Soon he was immersed in a research project: in shower and thunderstorm he pulled on his raincoat and dashed out to see what the birds were doing. Kinsey's first published work, What Birds Do in the Rain, appeared in a nature journal when he was still in grade school...
...Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (which was practically rewritten by that supercolossal scenarist, Joe Stalin himself), and heavy footed musicals. But occasionally a good film comes out of Russia. One of the best in years is Sadko (Mosfilm; Artkino). Directed by Alexander Ptushko, who also did Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27, 1947), it is a hearty, grandly dressed and often beautiful version of the opera* that Rimsky-Korsakov made out of an old Russian fairy tale...
...latest of many by which its maker, gangling (6 ft. 4), shy John Nash Ott Jr., 43, has developed a valuable new research tool for U.S. industry. Its name: "time-lapse" photography, i.e., film sequences taken at regular intervals to catch the actual growth of plants, flowers, fungus, etc. Ott first caught the public eye two years ago with the growth sequences he made for Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning Nature's Half Acre. Last week he had 20 cameras at work on a new sequence for Disney's followup, Secrets of Life-plus a contract...