Word: tac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were badly mauled in ambushes. Then at 11 a.m. the next day, enemy rockets and mortar shells pelted the column's artillery. ARVN tanks blazed back furiously, but with little success. An ARVN tank was hit by a B40 rocket and exploded into a blazing wreck. Tac air was called in, and for 40 minutes, VNAF Skyraiders, U.S. Air Force Phantoms and C-119 gunships bombed and strafed. Nobody knew if they hit anyone, but at least the mortars were silenced...
...development of ideas, Gropius's great concern was in choosing the teacher who could best communicate with and stimulate his students. The idea of teamwork was of primary importance, as we can still see today in the architectural firm that he set up, The Architect's Collaborative (TAC) Cambridge, a firm that works with a project leader--a head architect--who makes all final decisions but works with others to clarify his own scheme. It is not committee architecture where there are 10 people doing aspects of one scheme, but rather teamwork to help one man express an idea...
...PHOTOGRAPHS at the Fogg (sponsored by TAC, Mrs. Gropius and the International Exhibitions Fund in Washington, D.C.) illustrate Gropius's ideas of education and his conviction of the importance of the artist's vision for the whole of human concerns and endeavors. We can see in a plan for the "Megastructure" of 1928 the prophetic concept of day-care centers and housing for equal sexes. An entire floor is reserved for children's activities and day-care facilities, while the plan for living units shows what Mrs. Gropius calls "total change in the social order...visualized by Gropius, a change...
...Corporation has commissioned the Architects Collaborative (TAC) to prepare preliminary drawings for 278 units of student and faculty housing to be built on the present site of Treelands and the Bindery beginning this summer...
...hoped to awaken America to the relentless political struggles of the era. The country was not ready for the revelation. What resulted was no intellectual inquiry but a raw political charade of blame and guilt. The Left was deeply discredited. The Right was besmirched and divided by the tac tics of Senator McCarthy. Almost everyone, liberals in particular, heaped abuse on Chambers, who was regarded, at worst, as some sort of a malignant monster; at best, as an informer who had nothing to offer but the bare facts of his accusation...