Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dudley House has been discussing the possibility of setting up a house course, Master Thomas E. Crooks '49 said yesterday, "I think it's a very good idea," he added, "but we can't rush into any recommendations for next year...
Exploding Space. Portman had to earn his right to what he calls "total creativity" in the hard dollars-and-cents market. Soon after graduating from Georgia Tech's architectural school ('50), he decided: "If I come up with an idea and promote and develop it myself, there won't be any question about who is going to be the architect." His first venture was a new medical building. It gained him the kudos of the medical profession but was a promotional failure. Recalls Portman wryly: "I lost about $7,500, which I didn't have...
...situation now, it's the end-and the artist must show us the way." The star and theme setter of the art exhibit, appropriately enough, is that grand old Russian revolutionary and pioneer sculptor of the 1920s, Naum Gabo, 77, with 28 constructions on display. Though the original idea for the festival was Foss's, the planning and expenses are being borne by a dozen different local and state institutions (even Buffalo's bantam-sized 7,800-student state college got in the act by inviting Merce Cunningham and his dance company to perform two new works...
...nonutilitarian-was, and for the most part still is, anathema to the common man. To the suprematists, it was an epochal breakthrough, even though Malevich later recalled that he felt "a kind of timidity bordering on fear when I was called upon to leave the world of will and idea in which I had lived and worked; but the blissful feeling of liberating nonobjectivity drew me into the desert, where nothing is real but feeling...
...idea for the counseling service was proposed three weeks ago by the Reverend Theodore Evans. The group hopes, Evans said, that the chaplains' council would be "one more small outlet for students, other than the University Health Services, or any other advisory organization...