Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President also must reckon with a new force on Capitol Hill: Idaho Democrat Frank Church, who will take over as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has vowed to make the committee a significant force in U.S. foreign policy. Says Church: "I don't want the committee to be second-guessing the President. But on the other hand, I don't want it to be subordinate to the Administration...
...architecture in the 1970s may turn out to be the largest revision of opinion about buildings-what they mean, what they do, how they should look-since the first third of our century, the "heroic years" of Modernist architecture, when its terms were shaped by such men as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier...
...among the architects themselves there is an undeniable ferment, unlike anything in "classical" Modernist architecture. The receding tide of orthodoxy has left all manner of different organisms exposed on the reef. At one taxonomic extreme is California's Frank Gehry, 49. Gehry prefers materials-corrugated iron, chain-link fence, asbestos shingles, raw plywood-that allude to the commonplace substance of 1960s sculpture, and his formal interests frankly lie with what he calls "a fascination with incoherent and illogical systems, a questioning of orderliness and functionality." At the other
...came out really flat. It's too long a trip to be away two weeks," coach Frank McLaughlin said following his squad's seventh straight loss and tenth defeat in 13 games this season...
Buck's study, an "innovative, imaginative work," concentrates on the re-establishment of ties between the North and South, rather than treating the period of reconstruction as "a tragic era," Frank B. Friedel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday...