Word: taming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interior decorators, furniture designers, makers of fine glass, ceramics and fabrics sought to tame the new severities of the Bauhaus. They produced work that did not belie its mass-produced origin, yet sometimes possessed the ease and livability of an earlier, less industrial age. While the style of the day was mechanical, some of its most gifted designers, particularly in the 1920s, were craftsmen who produced signed, custom-designed work for a luxury market. Many were French: Silversmith Jean Puiforcat, Furniture Designer Jacques Ruhlmann, Glassmakers Rene Lalique and Maurice Marinot. In the U.S., Henry Dreyfuss and Norman Bel Geddes designed...
Payne, who taught at the Graduate School of Design until 1963, spoke of the walkway web as "tame, non-aggressive" redevelopment, contrasting it with massive, "visionary" schemes such as those proposed by the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority and "Team Monad," a group of former GSD students...
...Iran last year, when as many as 22,000 people were killed in two successive quakes. Such destructive force seems as devastating as a man-made nuclear blast. Fascinated by the awesome similarity, three Uni versity of Miami seismologists have now proposed using the power of the atom to tame the mighty rumbles of the earth...
Plenty has. Lindsay set out to tame the tough civil service unions and to prevent threatened strikes by public employees; such strikes are illegal in the state. Instead, he and the city suffered through a numbing series of strikes, starting with a transit stoppage on his very first day in office. Since then, sanitation workers, teachers, welfare-department employees and others have also struck. To prevent still more stoppages, Lindsay has been compelled to make extremely high wage settlements...
...revolution from the top is what it will take to tame the unions, Victor Grayson Hardie Feather may be just the man to bring it off. He has the name,* and the background. The son of a sometime furniture polisher and full-time pacifist, Feather was born in the milling town of Bradford and went to work filling flour sacks at 14. He worked nights on a local Socialist paper, where he used to talk politics with the publisher's daughter, who is now Minister of Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle. At 29, choosing unionism "because I wanted...