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...good taste, "but they had something more important-CHARACTER." As for the houses, they provided more comfort, light and air, and certainly had more vigor and imagination than the thin, nakedly simple, conformist boxes of today. "The broken 'picturesque' exterior made the most of the effect of sunlight, shade and foliage. These are good houses to walk around, to view at different times of day and year...
Solar Time. A new clock that gets power from light has been developed by General Time Corp. The clock, which will go on sale around Christmas, will operate for a month on 24 hours' exposure to sunlight or incandescent light. Price: around...
Everything about the gondola had been carefully designed to cushion the harsh conditions on the edge of space. The upper atmosphere is bitter cold, but the air is so thin that it has little chilling effect. The controlling influence is sunlight, much stronger than on the surface. To ward it away, the gondola was insulated with four layers of honeycomb paper and plastic, and an air-conditioning system was capable of keeping the inside temperature down to a comfortable...
...circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there he opened up the curtain wall with bands of windows for the interior restaurant and executive offices...
Another fine thing about 321 is some of its photography. Granted, most of its pictures need a little more light on the subject, but there are a few very excellent ones--the sunlight streaming down on the heads of tutors dining in Eliot, many of the snatches of Harvard drama, and a few terrific outing shots. There is, of course, page after page of dull photography--of boys gazing blankly at books, of people merely standing around, of more boys gazing at books. These perhaps represent the tedium which the editors of 321 seem to find most characteristic of Harvard...