Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. R.A.F. trainees shape up into smart marching units during this play, but they have more trouble forming themselves into rebels and reforming the British class system, as Playwright Wesker would have them...
...Shape of Nature. "Failure-prone" Fuller had another disappointment in store for him; just as a new version of his Dymaxion House seemed about to go into production in a three-way deal between venture capital, big labor and the aircraft industry, the war's end and a changed economic picture killed the project. But then suddenly, it seemed, he produced the jackpot invention: shelter that was transportable, versatile and cheap-the dome...
Combining a number of vector equilibriums creates a complex of alternating squares and triangles. Dividing the squares once again, he found he had a symmetrical, twenty-sided globe-shaped skin which could be constructed out of tetrahedrons-the triangle-sided pyramid shape that provides the greatest strength for the least volume (or weight). In a sphere made of such interlocked tetrahedrons, the weight load applied to any point was transmitted widely throughout the structure, producing a phenomenal strength-to-weight ratio. Bucky produced his dome by cutting a hollow sphere in half...
When Paul Hindemith wrote a parody of Tristan into an early opera, the offense to Wagner stirred up a resentment in his native Germany that lingered on for years. In the '30s, when his music had attained the clean, clear shape of neoclassicism, the Nazis banned it because of its antiRomantic ring. And after the war, when Hindemith returned to Europe after 13 years in the U.S., he was widely considered a walking anachronism by the new musical revolutionaries. In youth, he had been called "the playboy." In age, he was "the academician." In more than 40 prolific years...
Harvard and Boston College renew their hockey rivalry tonight at 8:15 at B.C.'s McHugh Forum. The top two Boston area squads both look to be in top shape for their first meeting of the year...