Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walking Up. Le Corbusier suggests a "vertical garden city" consisting of tall, compact buildings surrounded by nature. He plans for everything, from freeing "the housewife from her daily servitude" to the Assembly's "Hall of Lost Footsteps" (lobby) to his favorite project: a world museum, shaped like a pyramid. "One can go up on foot outside following the roof arranged as a road, the spiral mounting to the top. ... I have never been considered a great romanticist. However, I can well imagine two opponents of Assembly or Council room starting the road leading to the top . . . they discuss...
...added that he did not expect the new project to become a "major task of the graduate students, who are working for degrees and who do not have the same amount of time for extra-curricular activities as do the undergraduates," and called the experiment an attempt to find a balance between nothing and over-organization...
...made appointments to be at PBN between 12 and 6 o'clock on November 12 and 13 when the local Red Cross mobile unit will be on hand to bottle the crimson liquid. The College social service organization is working with the Red Cross as part of a statewide project...
...Ambrose Caliver, the U.S. Office of Education's Negro director of the project, does not expect as quick results as the Army got. His illiterates will be available for only four to six hours' instruction a week; many lack the incentive to learn that the G.I.s had. Dr. Caliver thinks a stimulus can be found. Says he: "Great advertisers have made people think they want a lot of stuff they don't want or need. We can do it with learning. Learning can be made popular if people are made to know that learning can help them...
Using "restricted" movies of the Bikini tests to illustrate his points, Major General Leslie R. Groves, Commanding Officer of the Manhatten project will address the Harvard Engineering Society on the atomic bomb and nuclear energy tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock...