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Also intended for Back Bay is Bill Jacobson's wall-long relief sculpture for the side of a building. Made of pieces like old railroad ties and used industrial lumber, its strong vertical and horizontal lines recall the rectilinear urban grid of the area. And the material corroborates the Populist sentiment that "wood is good"-a needed counterpoint for an increasingly steel city...
...directly comment on the world that faces it. But as you stand in the midst of the Frank Stella exhibition you can imagine that this exhibition, like other contemporary shows, sits at the focus of the city. The Modern Museum seems an open space in between the tangled grid of New York, where all the confusion has been distilled...
...Lions can pull out a win today, these sock hops could well become weekly affairs, ergo, as commonplace as losing. Oddly enough, Columbia's sports news office has started sending out fencing information, rather than football, and one wonders if the Light Blue has given up on the grid season, Meanwhile, a football renaissance is occurring at Brown, where the Bruins are hungry for a second consecutive Ivy win. The game's even in Providence. Marty Domres, won't you please come home...
Harvard was the New England grid kingpin for the first two weeks of the season. but fell to fourth after its 13-10 loss to Boston University. This week the tables were turned with Harvard advancing, while B.U. fell to fourth after giving up its undefeated record on a 14-9 loss to Massachusetts...
Doxiadis introduced the first session, on the subject of man and his environment. "The two components of the environment are physical and social," expounded the host. "We must be concerned with the quality of life. Does the grid system of organizing human settlements, for example, give greater opportunity to individuals than the centralized, circular pattern of contacts?" The responses were, at best, tangential. "We can't be godlike," mused Washington, D.C., Psychiatrist Reginald Lourie, "but we have the opportunity to contribute the appropriate inputs." Lord Llewelyn-Davies, the British architect, professed that the rigidity of bricks and mortar...