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...Buckminster Fuller...
Through technology, R. (for Richard) Buckminster Fuller would say, "man can do anything he needs to do." He urged young people to "reform the environment instead of trying to reform man." He argued, in the face of the Malthusian theory of human overpopulation and ultimate self-destruction, that "the entire population of the earth could live compactly on a properly designed Haiti and comfortably on the British Isles." He once declared that "man has the capability through proper planning and use of natural resources to forever feed himself and house himself and live in workless leisure." He dreamed of mile...
...descendant of a distinguished New England family, Fuller was the fifth generation of his family to go to Harvard. He was expelled in 1914 for blowing his tuition and expense money on a spree for the members of a Broadway chorus line. He worked in a Canadian machinery factory, was invited back to Harvard, was expelled for a second time, served in the Navy during World War I and went on to study science at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. During the 1920s he spent five years in an alcoholic depression following the death of a four-year-old daughter...
...Dymaxion House, an easily transported structure with roofs hung from a central mast and with outer walls of glass. He sought to give the design to the American Institute of Architects, which haughtily rejected all such "peas-in-the-pod-like reproducible designs." Years later the institute gave Fuller, who never formally studied architecture, a gold medal for his contributions to the field. In the early 1930s he produced the three-wheeled Dymaxion automobile, which attained 120-m.p.h. speeds using a standard 90-h.p. engine. The car was never manufactured commercially. After that, he invented the Dymaxion map, the first...
...Best of Friends, Michaelis examines seven friendships. In each case, he displays a conspicuous gift for drawing out his subjects, such as the torrentially voluble, visionary architect Buckminster Fuller, 87, and his friend of 50 years, the laconic sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, 78. Michaelis, a 1979 Princeton graduate, is most successful at re-creating the Ivy League background of the lifelong friendship between George Love, 82, and Donold Lourie, 83. Both men, who went on to become heads of families and the chiefs, respectively, of Chrysler and Quaker Oats, never ceased to view themselves as the golden boys of Princeton...