Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strength of its staff, and the ratio of tutors to students. The New York Times Magazine succinctly expressed the idea in 1930: "The success of the House plan eventually depends on the tutor who furnishes the manpower of the educational plant, of which the House is a mere shell." At present, while the House possess potentially strong staffs, their manpower in relation to the number of students in each House is negligible. As the number has increased, the proportion of tutors has decreased, while the Houses, hence the College, have suffered...
...Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz are at work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full house (3,000) in 1½ minutes. Abroad the boom resounds even louder, with new structures rising and war-damaged buildings getting a thorough refurbishing...
...Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan...
...modern U.S. architecture is now dividing between the skeletal slabs on one hand and voluminous concrete-shell structures on the other, so is the architects' furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting...
Though the U.S. oil pipeline system would gird the globe 7½ times, it is still not enough. In Houston last week, six oil companies (Continental, Standard of California, Gulf, Richfield, Shell and Superior) prepared to fill another gap in the system, jointly formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co. to supply California with its first piped crude oil. Houstonian R. G. McIntyre, recently retired chairman of the board of Standard Oil of Texas, was elected president of Four Corners, named for the oil-rich area where the borders of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet. The new line...