Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Made Environment bristles with challenge. Many of its pages are lightweight cardboard punch-outs, which can be folded to make beams, roofs, and whole buildings. One of the first lessons asks students to punch out six geometric shapes and arrange them in a pleasing design within a rectangular frame. When the students turn over the shapes, they find that the pieces represent armchairs, a table, a TV set. The next step is to rearrange the shapes within a room, which entails thinking about how people best communicate...
Students learn about weather, topography and motion as determinants of design. They are required to see and draw the "rhythmic" elements of a streetscape, like doors and windows. As if that were not demanding enough, the kids must also arrange identical punch-out "buildings" so that one-then two-units stand out among the rest. This done, they may never look blindly at a street again...
...ever had." Dan York said afterwards. York used to be a sissy, singing in a church choirs, but he'd smartened up. That's what Spider said, anyway. The group manager told Flex that the 7 p.m. audience was the best they'd ever played before. Flex wanted to punch him out for putting down the 10 p.m. crowd, which rated only about tenth...
...field events would have belonged solely to the Cadets had it not been for Harvard's infallible one-two punch of Skip Hare and Bob Galliers, who again swept the long and triple jumps. Hare won both events, setting a meet record of 48' 51" in the triple jump...
...contemplate sad realities. So I go to Tremont Street and then to Government Center to yuk it up for three solid hours, but I can't help thinking meanwhile that no matter how hard I laugh, these people are determining our pollicies around the world. They're putting the punch in Nixon's words. They're the reason Nixon can watch a football game and ignore 250,000 demonstrators who have come miles to walk by his house and yell at him. So I should not laugh...