Word: theorists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 1940's Le Corbusier as a member of an international group of architects, developed the master plan for the United Nations Secretariat and Assembly. Yet, until the completion of Unite d'Habitation and the stream of commissions which followed it, Le Corbusier was primarily important as an architectural theorist rather than a producing architect...
Inevitably, Aung Gyi's gradualism annoyed Ne Win, a soldier who is no Communist but has vowed to socialize Burma as quickly as possible. Aung Gyi earned the enmity of Brigadier Tin Pe, a Marxist theorist and a key member of the Revolutionary Council. For months, Tin Pe pressed for a faster switchover to state control; Aung Gyi's departure means that Tin Pe has finally...
...president of McCann at 32. Since then he has personally won for his agency such accounts as Coca-Cola and Buick and has increased its worldwide billings 600% to $371 million last year-second only to Thompson. An Oklahoman who went to Andover and Yale, Harper is an inveterate theorist who has become the most cussed and discussed man in advertising by expanding McCann into a maze of separate companies, each designed to offer advertisers a different kind of communications or advertising service. So far, Harper's costly expansion program has left McCann with small profit, but his competitors...
Character & Community. Parker owes its name and ideas to Francis W. Parker, a New England schoolmaster, whom Dewey himself called "the father of progressive education.'' Colonel Parker-he won the rank as a Union officer in the Civil War-was less a Dewey-style theorist than an artist with children. His talent revealed itself in his famed 1870s reform of the rote-taught schools of Quincy, Mass. Said he: "The primary concern of education is character. A school should be a model home, a complete community, an embryonic democracy...
...scholarship to the Blida lycee. He had only to look around him in school for evidence of discrimination. Though Blida was 80% Moslem, 27 of the 30 students in his class were European. One Moslem classmate was Saad Dahlab, now F.L.N. Foreign Minister and often called the "theorist of the revolution." A grade or two below was M'ham-med Yazid, now F.L.N. Information Minister. Benkhedda pored over books on modern revolutions-French, American and Russian. He recalls wanting to cry out in protest when his history teacher duly noted that Algeria had never been independent-that when...