Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First Lesson. "I am a freak," Motherwell confesses. "I didn't start painting seriously until I was 25." The son of a banker, Motherwell was born in Washington, went to Stanford, Harvard Graduate School, the University of Grenoble, and Oxford in pursuit of a respectable Ph.D. before showing up to study with Art Historian Meyer Schapiro at Columbia. In the face of hardheaded parental disapproval, he had been sketching since childhood. When he showed Schapiro his work, the Columbia scholar sent him along for criticism to the lively circle of French surrealists who had been driven by Hitler...
...summer's day in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson of Christ Church, Oxford, went punting on the Thames with three charming little girls named Alice, Lorena, and Edith Liddell. Alice as usual asked him to tell her a story, and since he was in great form that day she begged him to write the story down. "And so, to please a child I love," he later explained, "I printed in manuscript, and illustrated with my own crude designs, this little book." "This little book," entitled Alice's Adventures under Ground, was the first draft of a later...
...suggests a purposeful departure from "artistic" designing towards an "anonymous architecture," based principally on the uses and setting of a building. He uses the work of his own firm, The Architects' Collaborative, to illustrate the proposal. Thompson defines TAC's team style (as seen in the Geological Labs on Oxford St.) as "design for other humans than ourselves"--the opposite of "egotism and upstage-itis." His humanism has an odd ring, but the collaborative approach is one way of avoiding major blunders by individual architects...
...been named the first Negro member of the United Ministry. The Rev. Warner R. Traynham, Associate Episcopal Chaplain to Harvard and Radcliffe, will lead services, counsel students and participate in conferences. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria, Va., he studied for a year at Oxford University...
Moxie & Malarky. NBC's I Spy also succeeds, in part because it turns its back on the Fleming flammery, makes a hip thriller out of two CIA types touring the world as a tennis bum (Robert Culp) and his Oxford-educated Negro trainer (Bill Cosby). For all its stereotyped gunplay, the production has a style to which TV audiences should hope to become accustomed: lavish locations (Hong Kong in color for the first eight episodes), virtually choreographed direction, a swinging score, and a cant-and-cliché-free script, for which Culp doubled as author...