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...today, at 76, seven years after his retirement from Harvard, Gropius has launched into a new burst of creativity. The Architects Collaborative (TAG), a group of keen younger architects he gathered around him at his Cambridge, Mass. headquarters, has all the commissions it can handle. The old Lawgiver has displayed an unexpected flexibility in design. "I was possibly too Puritan," he reflects. "Too much storming against the old traditions. Now I have, with the same conceptions, I hope, a more subtle, more delicate expression...
Working with TAG, which operates on an equal-partner basis but assigns one architect as job captain to each project, Gropius is also kept busy with a new synagogue in Baltimore, the U.S. embassy in Athens, and is acting as a consultant on Manhattan's $100 million, octagon-shaped Grand Central City-a massive, 55-story structure adjacent to Grand Central Station, which will be the world's largest commercial office structure...
Although few men--even in the academic community--possess sufficient courage to tag themselves as active "radicals," a surprisingly large number accept the political proposals that the Respectable Radicals put forward. While the group retains its popular identity as "liberal," its program, in many cases, is decidedly radical...
...hamstringing that and other investigations. Westlake refused, reported the offer to State Solicitor General Paul Webb. At Webb's urging, Westlake got in touch with Jones again, hinted at a change of heart. Meeting at an Atlanta tree nursery, the two agreed on a $10,000 price tag on the single charge against Jones...
...have taught a thing or two to the teachers. The Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, who learned about Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders?' He answered: 'Young man, I think you mean, "May I have some 18-inch spreaders...