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...single place were taught drawing or color, volume, modeling, etc..., construction (furniture, etc.), jewellery, embroidery, etc, etc. . . . Le Corbusier began with a burin in his hand and the goldsmith's hammer and chisel, realizing, though very young, excellent works. He made his first house when he was seventeen and a half without ever having studied architecture. This house subjected to the influence of that time and of his teacher L'Eplattenier, gave an opening to architectural decorations: "sgraffiti," mural painting, furniture, wrought iron, embossing, etc.... During the following years this school undertook building works (decorative, of course, since...
...Seventeen years after the war we are still fighting on the farm for every pound of bread," exclaims Anany Egorovich Mysovsky, chairman of the fictional New Life kolkhoz in Abramov's tale, entitled Round and About. In these excerpts, Abramov follows Mysovsky on a day-long inspection tour of a typical collective. It is the middle of the harvest season, but one of the farm's tractor drivers shows up drunk and the other is stuck in a ditch; villagers are lolling about in the community bath houses instead of working the fields; for five months they have...
...when one of them discovered his old banjo in his attic and found some kindred spirits who decided it would be fun "to get together and play some." The Sorta 40s play for dances, and turn their fees over to charity-as does another Atlanta outfit called The Seventeen, which includes three architects, a doctor, an investment counselor, the plant manager for a box factory, an engineer, a lumber company vice president and an adman...
...Seventeen years ago, when two University of Pennsylvania professors developed the first electronic computer, International Business Machines sniffed that it had no commercial future. But in the early '50s, when computers made by Remington-Rand began replacing IBM punch-card machines. IBM rushed into building computers and quickly took over most of the market. Lured by IBM's success, other office-equipment makers and electronics companies rushed into computers and waited for the profits to roll in. With the exception of a lone company, they are still waiting...
...Seventeen greater Boston housewives--all of them college graduates, ranging in age from 23 to 41--are now carolled in the extended course of study for women, a program which began in February, 1962. Together, they have 30 children...