Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, authorities heeded the silent pleading of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) by approving a project to plant a tree in the shadeless yard of the Joyce Kilmer School...
Clearly, the Marian Anderson cover was a Special Project. In fact, the Senior Editor in charge decided to write the story himself. The preliminary work involved talks with Miss Anderson, her mother, friends, teachers, impresarios, etc.' But the important work was done, the writer claims, one afternoon when he shut himself up with a phonograph and a heap of records of Negro spirituals and played them over & over...
France is building an "atomic village" for 2,000 workers at Saclay, ten miles southwest of Paris, and has a large-scale program headed by Nobel Prizewinner (and Communist Party member) Frederic Joliot-Curie; his staff includes several men who helped plan the Chalk River project. Britain has set up five centers, with experimental piles near Oxford, and has already spent...
...Episcopalian." This church, however, would be "universal, nonsectarian." Dancer St. Denis hoped to get ministers in to preach guest-sermons; she would preach herself; and she and a "rhythmic choir" would explain things further by dancing.* Mystical-minded, dead-earnest St. Denis had often toyed with such a project before, but nothing much ever came of it. "I want now to work for God and nothing else," said she. ". . . Joyously I will dance the measures of the Eternal music, and the Geometry of God will come through. ... A great change has come into my life...
...vastly expensive jobs like the Kaufmann house (cost $150,000), Neutra likes to try out ideas to use later in his low-cost projects such as his 600-house Channel Heights project in San Pedro, Calif. Says he: "I have . . . always felt that it was the job of ours and the next following generation to make true the promise of the [industrial] revolution . . . the promise of a general exodus from our metropolitan slums, from rural hovels and, in short, from the pre-industrial standards of living and housing. . . . Whatever we design today . . . has its true contemporary significance only...