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They are R. Buckminster Fuller '17, who introduced the geodesic dome to modern architecture; Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy, an architect known for his use of thin concrete shells; and Felix Candela of Mexico, an experimenter with such new structural concepts as elliptical domes and umbrellas...
Candels will lecture in November and December, Fuller in February and March, and Nervi in April and May. Next year will mark the first time that the annual Norton Professorship has been shared. In the past, the series has consisted of six lectures, three in the fall, and three in the spring, on either literature, music...
...course, there is some sort of frustration for us professors," Fuller stated, "when our candidate--Republican or Democratic--doesn't speak as forthrightly as we would like him to on certain issues, because of political necessity. We would surely like to deal with the campaign differently, but we would probably lose...
Several Democratic professors have taken leaves of absence to be with their man during the fall or have constant pipelines open to Washington headquarters. Fuller prefers the relaxed approach, watching the campaign from Cambridge and giving advert when sought. He thinks that the political overestimates the influence of academic people in the campaign. The distance between practical political and learned scholar increases easily...
...indication of Fuller's view of the professor-politician relationship would be the surprise he expressed when the Vice-President publicly gave him credit for his contribution to Nixon's acceptance speech. "I heard the speech on television and liked the ideas, "Fuller is quoted as saying, "but I didn't recognize them as mine...