Word: olmstead
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Harvard offered its first course in architectural design in 1893, and a full-fledged architecture school, the nation's seventh, materialized a mere two years later. The pioneering lansdcape designer Frederick Law Olmstead founded the first program of Landscape Architecture in the country...
...Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers more than 100 styles. Bausch & Lomb, the patriarch of quality shade makers, has at least 200 styles to select from. And people are not shy about choosing. Amanda Brown Olmstead, head of an advertising agency in Atlanta, has nine pairs, which she stores with her jewelry: "I change my glasses just as I change my earrings. What I wear depends on my mood that day and the colors I wear...
...like watching your mother getting ravaged by New York thugs," said Greg Kieselmann, co-manager of institutional research at Morgan, Olmstead, Kennedy & Gardner, a Los Angeles brokerage firm. That rather vivid imagery was typical of the investment world's reaction last week after Financier Saul P. Steinberg zapped Walt Disney Productions with a market ploy that made him $32 million richer but may have left Disney much weaker. Steinberg, 44, had just pulled off the latest example of a spreading tactic called greenmail, Wall Street's version of blackmail...
Students who have never been to Boston (or those Harvard students who have never been out of Harvard Square) may want to look into Fine Arts S-183, "The Architecture of Boston." Focusing on the period from 1750 until World War II and on architects such as Bullfinch, Richardson, Olmstead, and Gropius, the course's field trips may put the Freedom Trail to shame...
...special collection of Olmstead's work will be exhibited at the GSD through...