Word: mural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fittings, TIME Inc. Art Adviser Francis Brennan commissioned some of Britain's outstanding artists and craftsmen. Shortly after he had made his selections, three of them were awarded high professional honors: Designer Casson was knighted for his work in the Festival of Britain; Ben Nicholson, who painted a mural for the reception hall, won first prize in the Carnegie International Exhibition, and Geoffrey Clarke, who executed a symbolic sculpture for the reception room, was commissioned to do some of the stained-glass windows for the reconstructed Coventry Cathedral...
Fiscal matters in particular pushed Buck into dealing with such non-academic matters as athletic policy. A consistent advocate of the intra-mural "athletics for all" program and continued de emphasis of intercollegiate football. Buck was a dominant influence in removing the steel stands from the Stadium...
...policy, and formulating admissions procedures. Even outside the academic world, he is consistent in his concept that the best policy provides equal facilities for all and permits the individual to have as much latitude and free will as possible. Thus he has been an earnest supporter of the intra-mural "athletics-for-all" plan despite the fact that it aids in plunging the Athletic Association deep in the red each year, and expeditiously sought a study hall for freshmen who felt discriminated against because they, unlike upperclassmen, had no studying facilities after Lamont closed. Buck found them a hall...
...functional, or more imaginative, than its 38-ft.-square window, which Emil Frei and Robert Harmon designed. Since the window faces the congregation, they made it only partly transparent-to cut down glare. By day, the opaque areas appear in silhouette; with interior lighting at night, they create a mural effect. The church itself is somewhat stiff in design, and the window's weaving composition is contrastingly amorphous...
...spacious room was decorated with flags, flowers, and a 37-ft. mural of old New York; music floated in through loudspeakers. Everyone who showed up got a free piggy bank and free chances on 18 prizes ranging from a new Mercury to a trip to Bermuda and Nassau; those who opened accounts of $5 or more got pen & pencil sets...