Word: master
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dual nature of an architect as both an artist and a master of a technology poses a temptation to favour one aspect over the other. Yet it is obvious that one without the other leads to mere emptiness and in fact is impossible. As in any creative work the content can not be seperated from the style or technique of execution...
...written word, and more and more by the photograph, the bill-board, the cinema, the picture magazine, and now television. Until both sender and receiver of these visual messages are trained in the twin arts of perception and discrimination, the educated man may hardly claim to be the master of his own environment...
...proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head in the clouds of the title; and his students stoop over so their brains can look for profundities while their arses master star-gazing. The playwright achieved a special mixture of satire, criticism, obscenity, invective, wit, fantasy, and lyricism-all within a set of conventions as rigid and complex as those of the 18th-century opera buffa...
Agreeing with Leighton, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, called the study "an extremely thorough and perceptive analysis of the House system, and its problems and acomplishments, which offers sound practical suggestions for improved performance...
Kirkland House has already started to act on the report, which came out Monday, Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirland, reported. "We are discussing some points of it now," he said, "and we have set up a subcommittee to study the possibility of appointing a House member to initiate various events which would give students and tutors a greater opportunity to meet...