Word: grid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fans, but over the past three years they have kept House football thriving and functioning at a healthy pace. Who are they? They're the chain gang, devoting their time (for a slight fee, of course) to carrying the ten-yard marker and ball marker up and down the grid iron. But the two Kirkland House residents will be retiring after Yale due to old age--they're seniors. In honor of that event, the House football referees gave Stearns and Reid each a penalty marker with his name on it and an officiating cap--total cost...
...simply as that. But, of course, it was not that simple. What happened was not invasion, but long reciprocal exchange, intellectual barter, as it were. From about 1900 on, European modernism in architecture was imbued with American imagery, preoccupied with issues that became central to the International Style. The Grid, the load-bearing frame and light skin of the new buildings, came to Europe from the Chicago School, whose leader was Louis Sullivan. The Bauhaus ideal of the open plan was transmitted to Germany by Frank Lloyd Wright. Adolf Loos' messianic rejection of ornament in the early 1900s, which...
...architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken notion that Mies van der Rohe contrived the 1958 Seagram Building as "worker housing, utterly nonbourgeois." If Wolfe cannot see what august luxury that Grid contains, he literally does not know how to see architecture...
...strong nucleus of players at the so-called skill positions should make the Bulldogs a cinch to repeat as Ivy League grid champion, not withstanding a possibly potent challenge from Joe Restic's Crimson...
...instituted an entirely new offensive and defensive system which he hopes will revitalize last year's 1-9 squad. Berndt last week cited a new commitment from the Penn administration, including the President, and "an air of excitement and enthusiasm" as evidence of an eventual resurgence of Penn grid fortunes...