Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gropius insisted that their work meet society's needs and that they move ahead alongside industry-until then largely overlooked by architects as a partner in their art. A technical innovation like the prefabricated glass-and-plastic facade, he knew, could be used as excitingly as hand-hewn marble. In this way, he prepared two generations of architects to meet the pressures of the postwar building boom and inspired them to want to produce beautifully...
...many as 600 police on campus or on call nearby. "The revolutionaries said they would destroy the college," he explained in testimony before a Senate subcommittee. "I said they would not. We had police available before trouble started, instead of waiting for the situation to get out of hand...
Minutes after his exchange with the stewardess, three Massachusetts state police appeared in the aisle. They hand cuffed Dudley, a descendant of the founder of Cambridge, a Harvard Law School alumnus and currently a United Church of Christ official. He was hustled off the plane, taken to a police station and booked for disturbing the peace. Police took his belt, glasses, comb and watch, then jailed him for two hours. "I thought they were joking," said Dudley, but he knew that they were not when one cop told him: "You be careful of what...
...Europe-wide symposium of the Catholic hierarchy had hoped for an atmosphere of ecclesiastical calm. But out side the palace were 70 priests (some of them in sport coats and red ties), part of a protesting "shadow symposium" that had been hastily convened at a nearby hostel. Bullhorn in hand, French Dominican Jean Cardonnel, a fiery leftist whose Lenten address helped inspire last year's "May events" in Paris, set the tone of the protest. The servants of Jesus Christ, he said, were now joining the world's students and workers to demand better human conditions...
...British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson puckishly formulated the basic law of bureaucracy that bears his name: work expands to fit the time at hand for doing it. Parkinson himself regarded his "law" as satire; inevitably, several American psychologists have decided to take it seriously. What is more, they have not only proved, at least to their own satisfaction, that the theory is true, but have extended...