Word: mumford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death at the Heart. Professional critics such as Lewis Mumford have long warned that the U.S. city in general had something more than a slight case of congestion and aching joints. But most people thought of the problem only in terms of slum clearance and better housing for the poor?a worthy but not exhilarating objective. Only gradually did it become clear that the sickness of the cities was a kind of heart disease; they have been dying at the center, where the great stores and great buildings and great enterprises are supposed to be. The suburban sprawl, in leeching...
Splinters in the Dust. Chief holdout is old New York. In a memorable exchange in 1948, Architectural Critic Lewis Mumford accused Park Commissioner Robert Moses of creating playground spaces "that are merely leftovers, bleak asphalt wastes, marks of an absence of human interest and an almost positive distaste for beauty." To parents' demands that sawdust be substituted for cement, Park Commissioner Newbold Morris replied with a pungent comment on the problems of the great big city. "Sawdust gets full of splinters, broken glass, empty cigarette packages and debris. We're experimenting with a rubber compound...
...Lever Bros., where it's in to give brief, breezy names to executives as well as products (All, Lux, Vim, Wisk, Spry), Milton C. Mumford is addressed by colleagues and referred to in company publications merely as "Milt." Along with the little names, however, go big titles: Mumford, 51, has been president and chief executive of Unilever's U.S. arm since 1959; last week he became chairman as well, succeeding retired William H. Burkhart. Illinois-born and educated (University of Illinois '35), Mumford came to soapmaking Lever Bros., ten years ago from towelmaking Fieldcrest Mills. As president...
...recipients at Harvard with their projects, in parentheses are Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government (A study of the fall of the French Third Republic and of the Vichy regime from 1934 to 1944, focused on domestic politics and particularly on the French Right). Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor Emeritus of the Humanities (Studies in American thought...
Bate, in fact, deals with the same questions Keats did. The intellectual specialization Bate mentions in his Preface applies to critics as well as to artists, and Bate's problem is, how does scholarship use scholarship? Howard Mumford Jones, on his retirement, lay down an eloquent answer...