Word: oneman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing little more than validating what it found to be the evolutionary development of Independent Study. It had originally been intended as course reduction to accommodate eccentric schemes of the college's best students, but now about 300 students per term use the program to take oneman courses and there is little logic to restricting this opportunity to the best students...
Prime mover behind Atlanta's "oneman urban-renewal plan" is Architect John Portman, 43, who has won hometown honors, architectural awards-and become a millionaire to boot-by insisting that he be both promoter and part owner as well as designer for all of Peachtree Center. Making himself his own client is the only way, Portman has found, to retain "the authority to see that the project is carried out properly and not botched along the way." In his multiple role, he has seen to it that the buildings are a far cry from the run-of-the-drafting...
...this sort have gained power in a major European country? Dreadful though it is, the answer must be: largely by accident. For there can be little doubt that an early successful attempt on Hitler's person would have caused his party to collapse ... The Third Reich was a oneman show...
...masterpiece," cooed Elsa Maxwell in one of her columns. "Some dissenters scream, 'Hang the abstractionists!' I echo: 'Certainly, but why not hang them on your walls?' " One dealer who enthusiastically agreed was Charles Egan, who gave De Kooning and Franz Kline their first oneman shows...
...This team is 100 per cent behind O'Hiri," Munro said, "and it is no oneman team." No matter how much publicity O'Hiri gets, he added, "soccer people will know that this is not a one-man team...