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"You are more likely to hear a new synthesis of older ideas and receive a larger picture than is available elsewhere," says McElroy.
It has been called "aural wallpaper," "music for the Birkenstock crowd" and "yuppie elevator music." Its titles evoke a holistic, hot-tubbing world: Etosha -- Private Music in the Land of Dry Water, Aerial Boundaries, Nirvana Road. Although its composers include musicians prominent in the rock avant- garde, it is marked...
Known as "Mr. Hospital" among his colleagues, Deland presided over the synthesis of four area Harvard-affiliated hospitals that created Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1980. He served on several other boards of directors, including those of the Harvard Medical Area Services Corporation and the Controlled Risk Insurance Corporation...
During the past decade, his work has become coherent and confident again, partly by means of a lightly worn classicism. For the Zueblin construction company's new headquarters outside Stuttgart, he has produced an improbable but marvelous synthesis. A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental...
Riesman also points to Hackman's appointment,and cites the significant number of psychologistsat the School of Education as evidence thatinterest in the synthesis of the social sciences,relatively young disciplines, continues.