Word: predictioneer
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Ever since the great earthquake of 1906, scientists have been predicting that the city of San Francisco, perched precariously over the San Andreas fault, would some day be hit by another devastating tremor. Reuben Greenspan, 69, was not nearly so vague as that. Operating on a long-standing theory that...
In the last months of 1972, the pace of the business takeoff clearly quickened. Industrial production jumped by about one point a month, and real G.N.P.-not counting price increases -expanded at an annual rate of close to 8½%. Thus the economy starts in 1973 not only from a...
The J.V. cagers have five outstanding ball players and superior coaching. They have the added advantage of having played together on last year's freshman team. There are some defense and ball control problems which Hart should be able to work out. Harvard's lack of bench strength will hurt...
The opening night audience seemed a bit hesitant starting up its curtain call applause, as if it had expected more--with good reason. The last scene of A Man had been cut out. By ending with Bloody Five's self-inflicted castration the production itself is emasculated. Brecht intended to...
But 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...