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...encounter daily, to make us realize how they matter and that we can and should keep them alive. Written to save the landmarks that mark the geography of American communities and their collective memories, the book is not a coffee-table volume of Historic Architecture glossies. It is a handbook, available in paperback, demonstrating how and why architecture is forgotten, showing in what ways the aesthetics of ordinary buildings matter, and outlining methods of preserving the structures that make only minor architectural statements, but create the mood of a living place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why 1304 Mass Ave Really Matters | 11/5/1976 | See Source »

...foundation also announced that David G. Mitten, Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, will compile a handbook of Greek and Roman bronze sculptures, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, will write a commentary on "the Iliad" during their tenure next year as fellows

Author: By Marc H. Meyer, | Title: Guggenheim Gives Fellowships for '76 | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...that the standard of literate English still goes back to Victorian English, and that people who haven't read Darwin, Ruskin, Dickens and Thackeray don't have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese (implement used as a verb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 26, 1976 | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...that was used as a set for Paramount's Sunset Boulevard. After graduating from Yale Law in 1958, she became an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, and later set up a law firm with her husband and friends in 1962. She also taught at U.C.L.A. Law, wrote a handbook on antitrust cases and was co-author of a textbook, Federal Civil Practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Dozen Who Made a Difference | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

According to the Brigades' most recent handbook, violence is the only means by which the proletariat can take power away from the bourgeoisie. Once that transfer of power is made, the centralized government will be abolished and control will go to small local assemblies. "There can be no halfway solutions, no half measures," asserts Carmo. "That won't work. We must have either pure socialism or we will go back to fascism. The workers in Portugal have shown that they do not want central power or a central authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Brigades: Voices of Chaos | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

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