Word: portman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 30 men and women, most in their mid-20s, straggle into the plush classroom. Some bear the look of their recent past--the collegiate T-shirts and knapsacks. Some sport the fashion of their professional future--the smartly tailored suits and briefcases Rob Portman joins them, settles on the green swivel seat and arranges his materials--notebook, pens, and breakfast: croissant, and a Styrofoam cup of coffee, from the bistro-cum-cafeteria, Soupcon...
...slightly over a year, Portman and his fellow students will have their Masters in Public Policy (MPP) from the Kennedy School of Government. But for now, they must contend with one of the most difficult first-year requirements: econometrics. The routine starts when a section leader--a second-year student--puts up announcements about review sections and problem sets on the board, and students use the time to catch up on weekend news...
...through an architecture that was wholly unique or specifically American in spirit." What was this spirit, this ignored Zeitgeist? Tailfins and Empire: "the Hog-stomping Baroque exuberance of American civilization." Those who did serve it were banished as apostates, and become the heroes of Wolfe's narrative: John Portman, Morris Lapidus, Eero Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone...