Word: fosters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard gamers within the house argue that despite all the mockery that assassin typically invites, it represents one of the best ways to foster house spirit in Quincy. Just as Dunster has their traditional goat roast and Kirkland has its evening of Shakespeare, we have our assassin...
...days of playing, it becomes painfully obvious that assassin regularly generates enough dispute, bitterness, and resentment to far outweigh any harmony it might create. The situation is only exacerbated by the House assassin council's unwillingness to make special provisions for important House activities which actually do foster a sense of camaraderie, such as House Crew. After a month of practice and conditioning, Quincy rowers are reluctant to come to breakfast as a team or to meet for practices in the morning for fear of being killed, thereby letting their assassin teams down...
...women) have received it since Philip Johnson got the first one in 1979; they range from Mexico's Luis Barragan to Italy's Renzo Piano, from Britain's James Stirling to America's Frank Gehry. This year's laureate, announced this week, is another Brit: England's Sir Norman Foster, 63. "Every award is special," says Foster, "but there's only one Pritzker. It's a recognition of the importance of architecture itself...
...Foster, like his former partner Richard Rogers (who has a peerage, but no Pritzker as yet), is a pivotal figure in British architecture. But his buildings have risen all over the world, from Germany to China, and at present his practice employs some 500 people. His influence on the profession is enormous. His 1985 tower for the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, for instance, reversed the general dogma that a high-rise office block had to have a solid central core: it is not a "block" but a frame, a vertical web whose generous, open ground level...
...student center serving as a gathering ground for people to meet, talk and chat at various points during the day and the afternoon," Grayson says. "Some people go to bars and like to drink, and others don't. This might be a way to foster a rapport from ground zero...