Word: giver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern architecture's idea-giver, analytical thinker and greatest educator. Professionally active and alert to the end of his 86 years, he died in Boston of complications following heart surgery. There was no funeral in the usual sense. "Wear no signs of mourning," he had instructed. "It would be beautiful if my friends would get together drinking, laughing, loving-all more fruitful than graveyard oratory." And so, 70 friends gathered last week to feast and recall the great architect...
...Form Giver. More than any man, Smith gave the obdurate metal of the Industrial Revolution its own sculptural form. He liked the fact that steel had little real history in art. What associations the metal possesses, he argued, "are primarily of this century: structure, movement, progress, suspension, destruction and brutality...
Patroit coach Mike Holovak has decided to alternate his regular quarterback Mike Taliaferro with rookie signal-giver Tom Sherman. Taliaferro's five intercepted passes and two fumbles in last Sunday's disastrous 48-14 loss to the New York Jets made many observers think that Holovak would start Sherman this Sunday...
...broker who buys or sells stock on the basis of inside information commits fraud. Such police work intensified after Lawyer Manuel F. Cohen, an austere career civil servant, took over as SEC chairman in 1964. In the Merrill Lynch case, the SEC contends that not only the inside-tip giver is acting illegally, but also-and it is a word that was heard all over the Street last week -the "tippee...
...novelists' standard metaphors, and Durrell has always used them well. He does so again in this devilishly clever metaphysical mystery tale. But new times demand new metaphors; except for that brief, noisy episode in the ballroom, Tune is governed by a quavering image of the computer as truth giver. The hero, too, is brought up to date. The Alexandria Quartet was in large part about an artist's struggle for freedom within his culture; Tune, which in Latin means next," deals with the similar struggles of a scientist. Beneath its lush trappings and Mediterranean settings, the novel...