Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and undisputed holder of the "Mr. Modernism" title, reinvigorated the department, remembers Len Currie (GSD '38). Though "Harvard has always been tops" in the field, Currie says, "in '36 architecture was at a low ebb." Squabbles in the faculty, the departure of the old dean of architecture, and the sad state of American design during the Depression had shaken the school's confidence. Gropius's arrival boosted morale, and Harvard soon rocketed to the to the forefront of international design...
Muriel S. Snowden '38, co-founder of Boston's Freedom House, which promotes improved race relations, said she is distressed by the University's lack of pride in its Black achievers. She cited the sparse tribute paid to Harvard's distinguished black graduates at the 350th celebration as evidence that the problem still exists today...
Contrary to popular opinion, John Harvard was not the founder of Harvard College--in fact, he was still in England when the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in 1636 appropriated 400 1636 appropriated 400 pounds for theestablishment of a "schoale or colledge...
...ordinary high-tech start-up, Pixar stems from Filmmaker George Lucas' special-effects laboratory and boasts two of the best-known names in computer graphics, Edwin Catmull, 41, and Alvy Ray Smith, 42. Controlling interest in the company was purchased in February by Steven Jobs, the co-founder and former chairman of Apple Computer...
...also accused, with others, of laundering drug money through an investment company, Prasadam Distributors, controlled by sect members. The new questions could hardly have come at a worse time for the Hare Krishna movement in the U.S. (membership: about 3,000). Since the death in 1977 of Founder Srila Prabhupada, the sect has split into mutually hostile factions. The internal trouble was dramatized publicly last fall when a disillusioned devotee bludgeoned the leader of the West Virginia temple, Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada. The assailant is serving a 15-month prison term in West Virginia...