Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognized his genius was Louis Sullivan, the master skyscraper builder. Though Wright had only three years of engineering training at the University of Wisconsin, Sullivan hired him. But to fellow draftsmen the young Wisconsin countryman, with his flowing tie and long hair, was a natural butt for jokes. Wright fought them to a draw, in eluding one brawl from which he emerged with eleven knife wounds in his back...
...years he served an apprenticeship to the man he called "Lieber Meis-ter." "Form follows function," Sullivan insisted. "Form and function are one, and should be taken into the realm of the spiritual," young Wright replied, and struck out on his own. Soon adventuresome clients began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves...
...state legislature has granted the Regional College committee only $1 million, pointed out Edward T. Sullivan, chairman of the Cambridge school board's subcommittee on junior colleges. With so limited a budget, he continued, the committee should make use of existing facilities such as those Cambridge is offering...
Another advantage which Cambridge offers, Sullivan said, is the easily tapped supply of top grade instructors among the graduate students and teaching fellows at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...addition, Sullivan remarked that the two buildings offered by Cambridge--the Wellington and Kelley schools--are both within five minutes' walk from the nearest MTA station. Since most of the students at the junior college will come from "economically underprivileged groups," he explained, availability of public transportation will be an important factor in choosing a site...