Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Largely because of a bespectacled, quizzical-looking musician named Robert Craft, 48. For the last 23 years of Stravinsky's life, Craft served the old master as rehearsal conductor, aide, intellectual catalyst, amanuensis and surrogate son. Moreover, Craft worked with Stravinsky on innumerable magazine articles and six semi-autobiographical books-a series that is supplemented this week by the publication of Craft's Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship 1948/1971 (Knopf...
...THEIR mutual accommodation, Harvard and Gulf gave the lie to the notion that large American corporations can be semi-democratic institutions. In a system where power is proportional to the money invested, the management of most large corporations make an elaborate effort to pretend that they are controlled in some small way by the people who share in corporate power through ownership of stock: yet in huge corporations (like Gulf) it is all but impossible for even relatively large stockholders (like Harvard) to effect changes in company policy through the normal channels of corporate elections and proxy decisions. And when...
...Submitting a weekly list of all jobs awarded, with scholarship student workers indicated, to the Office of Student Employment and semi-annual list to the Dean of Harvard College...
...fourth part of the building is a semi-circular lecture hall section, containing four theatres ranging in size from 150 seats to 500 seats. The lecture halls will be outfitted with expensive and elaborate audio-visual equipment. The most distinctive feature of the lecture wing is the "spider leg" supports which hold the roof aloft. The spider legs are nine bent steel trusses that emanate from the center of the semicircle. They will be left uncovered and allowed to rust until a thick cover of reddish oxides is formed...
...through the center of the building was going to be decorated with art works. The terraces of the office wing were supposed to have been adorned with plants, "sort of like hanging gardens," Sert says. Sert had also hoped to have an outdoor amphitheatre on the roof of the semi-circular lecture hall section. The building's two courtyards were going to be sculpture gardens. "Unfortunately, the parts of the building that were supposed to be given to the arts were the first to be cut out," Sert noted...