Word: nervy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are R. Buckminster Fuller '17, who introduced the geodesic dome to modern architecture; Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy, an architect known for his use of thin concrete shells; and Felix Candela of Mexico, an experimenter with such new structural concepts as elliptical domes and umbrellas...
Candels will lecture in November and December, Fuller in February and March, and Nervi in April and May. Next year will mark the first time that the annual Norton Professorship has been shared. In the past, the series has consisted of six lectures, three in the fall, and three in the spring, on either literature, music...
...comfort to women in love," Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron reputedly contains every basic plot ever written. It has provided aid and comfort for novelists, short story writers, dramatists, Hollywood and TV hacks. Now Boccaccio has been set to the dance. At Italy's Nervi Festival, Russian-born Choreographer Leonide Massine last week presented the premiere of his Human Comedy, a three-hour interpretation of nine of Boccaccio's lustiest tales...
Against abstract sets resembling medieval stained glass, the Nervi dancers last week reeled off their figures in the feverish, exuberant style of such post-classical Massine creations as Fantasy at Grand Hotel. Predictably, the crowd-stoppers were the sexy numbers, so torrid that the Festival Committee had at first been threatened by the censor: an undulating dance by an all-but-nude ballerina waiting for the arrival of her lover; a passionate embrace in the course of which two lovers move across the stage in angular jetés. The best dancing was provided by young Italian Ballerina Carla Fracci...