Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queens. On the surface the 70-acre, pine-and-palm-dotted campus, overlooking the Mediterranean, seems as placidly calm as a New England college. Sturdy, ivy-covered buildings, bearing the names of the university's pioneers and benefactors-Dodge, Post, Jesup, West-are flanked by the gleaming modern new engineering building and library. Though the university is largely supported by U.S. oil-company donations and grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, plus $1,000,000 a year from the U.S. Government for scholarships, it is so scrupulous of its impartiality that it gives only one course in American...
...Modern Britons know better than to pack up their troubles in their old kit-bags. Instead, more than 130,000 suffering souls each year write, telephone or wire their woes to the cockney-sharp Daily Mirror (circ. 4,723,131) or its scandal-breathing sister, the Sunday Pictorial (5,709,893). Encouraged by occasional black-boxed invitations in both tabloids (DON'T WORRY ON YOUR OWN), Mirror readers address their problems to one Philip Wright, while the Pictorial asks the woebegone to confide in its John Noble...
Nolan's highlighting Australia's wild and woolly past has caused many an official frown. Grumped one Australian government official: "It is a pity that Australia should be represented in a modern art museum by a criminal." But Nolan, who keeps returning to the Kelly theme on his painting trips through southeast Asia and Europe, maintains, "Kelly was the one genuine Australian hero-even if Australians are ashamed to admit...
...Department of State had a commission to challenge any architect: 1) build a million-dollar U.S. embassy in Athens just one mile from the Parthenon, 2) make it a showcase of U.S. modern architecture, but let it be classical enough to fit its surroundings, 3) give it a warm, friendly, inviting atmosphere expressing U.S. democracy. For the assignment, State picked German-born Walter Gropius, 74, founder and onetime (1919-28) director of the Bauhaus, later chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, and founder of his own cooperative architectural firm in Cambridge, Mass., The Architects' Collaborative (T.A.C...
...Sacred Place." Gropius' T.A.C. had designed a building (to be started this fall) that will be Athenian in feeling, elegant in proportion and yet modern in design. It will stand on a 66,000-sq.-ft., $500,000 site (donated by the Greek government) on Vassilissis Sofias Street between Mount Hymmittos and pine-covered Lycabettus Hill. At a press conference in Athens, Gropius calmed the remaining fears. "Athens is a sacred place," he said. "We did our best to connect the city's traditions with our own architectural concepts. But keeping the tradition does not mean to imitate...