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Parvey, a 1963 graduate of the Divinity School, said yesterday that she feels she is a pioneer in the male-dominated Christian church...
...Drister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, said yesterday he thought Parvey was strong enough to handle the difficulties of being a pioneer. Stendahl called her "a catalyst." "She gets the best out of people," he said...
...emphasis is still in that direction, but over the past decade the school somehow lost its way. Originally, its faculty was composed largely of working artists who learned from each other and in turn passed on knowledge and technique to small groups of artistically minded students. Once a pioneer, Bennington began in the late '60s to find itself outdone by imitators. "We haven't got the money," says Novelist Bernard Malamud, a Bennington faculty member for eleven years. "We are not enticing people as we used...
...there were few jobs to be had in Depression-worn Berlin, so Breuer moved on to Zurich and then to England. There, he joined a pioneer modernist, London Architect F.R.S. Yorke, and designed in 1936 a small completely innovative pavilion at an exhibition in Bristol. Its taut glass juxtaposed with romantically rough walls of stone, it enclosed a beautifully proportioned space, and architects everywhere began to talk about Breuer. Even more striking was a project for the "Civic Center of the Future" that contained a lively assortment of innovative building shapes-Y-shaped, stepped-back and cantilevered structures, slabs, buildings...
Personal relationships, in fact, were not Roebling's forte. But he was very good at building suspension bridges. He was by nature a pioneer, the sort of man who had abolished monarchy and slavery only to be puzzled by the discovery that freedom is not always synonymous with honesty, discipline, and hard work...