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It’s high time that we put that mentality behind us. While it makes sense to respect the tradition of Harvard’s planning and style and to draw on its icons for inspiration, a photocopy of Sever Hall in Allston would be senseless, styleless, and a poor policy for an Allston masterplan that should be committed to building an intellectual arsenal unmatched anywhere else...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Allston's Concrete Future | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...serious art requires the critic to drain the blood from her prose style. The great fear of this reviewer is that if he continues to want to read criticism of serious art, he will have to get used to writing without a shine to it, the substance-heavy but styleless prose of a Susan Sontag...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sontag's Critical Blandness | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

CINEMA The styleless Sister Act is engineered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

Venturi saw the everyday commercial vernacular-McDonald's, Ramada Inn, Burger King, Tastee-Freez, Fatburger. Kentucky Fried-as a source, just as the International Style had used the "styleless" metaphor of machinery, biplanes and ocean liners as its source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...store"* is trying to shake its dowdy image and lure the fashion-and style-conscious shopper of the 1970s. Gone are the ground-floor budget counters where shoppers elbowed for hats, scarves and socks. Gone also are the unimaginative displays of cut-rate drugs and the dull racks of styleless garments. In their places are gleaming glass cases of jewelry and perfume, flanked by gold-crowned marble columns and overhung by glittering chandeliers. A plush green carpet, 12 ft. wide and 318 ft. long, runs along the first floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Macy's Greets Christmas | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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