Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrate this point, Nervi used slides illustrating the evolution of the automobile, the airplane, and the locomotive. Early imaginative conceptions of the airplane designed without regard to physics, he pointed out, were grotesque "fantasies" with no common design. On the other hand, the shape of the modern airplane, determined by the principles of aerodynamics, is not only common to all airplanes, but is also aesthetically pleasing...
Public buildings such as entertainment halls, skyscrapers, and transportation Terminals, Nervi predicted, will progressively increase in size. As dimensions increase, static laws increasingly determine shape until "for structures of huge dimensions, obedience to them is compulsory...
Nervi maintained that the basic uniformity of shape imposed on architecture by static law will run the risk of becoming "fatal monotony." "Binding as technical demands may be," he declared, there always remains a margin of freedom sufficient to show the personality if its creator and, if he be an artist, to flow his work, even in its strict technical obedience, to become a real and true work...
...real issue at stake is the political shape and leadership of Western Europe. De Gaulle is pressing for a loose confederation of states, presumably to be led by France and largely independent of the U.S.; Britain, he apparently feels, would not only rival French influence but act on behalf of the U.S. to dominate the Common Market. Adenauer, who is anxious to achieve almost any form of political union before he steps down, is now willing to go along with De Gaulle's concept. Belgium and The Netherlands prefer a far tighter, supranational federation, but failing that, they want...
...rise in ability-the nation's better high schools are improving so fast that their top graduates are too good for ordinary colleges, and too numerous for the best ones to handle. The favored campuses in particular are hotly debating everything from admissions to curriculum, and a new shape for colleges seems to be in the making...