Word: utilitarians
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...blame Harvard for some of this—partly because it’s fun to blame Harvard, but also because we really are immersed in a careerist, corporate, and insipidly utilitarian dystopia. We hear a lot about stress, even clinical depression and mental illness in the Harvard student body—no wonder, given the enormous pressure on each of us to make a splash in the world...
...subpoenaed with Todd Palin were also, as expected, missing from the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing into the so-called Troopergate scandal. In fact, the committee itself didn't even show up. Twenty minutes after the 10 a.m. scheduled start time, the second-floor conference room of the utilitarian Legislative Information Offices building in downtown Anchorage still had nothing but bystanders: a few legislative aides and two dozen or so journalists who sipped coffee, traded business cards and wondered exactly what there would...
...employment of cloning deviates further and further from strictly utilitarian purposes, the absence of definitive international regulations means that the only limits on cloning are technological capacity and consumer demand. In this environment, even benign pet-owner sentimentality can proceed unchecked to extreme ends, as in the aforementioned cases of the cat and terrier...
...pillows. Design Research is long gone, but Marimekko remains a familiar leitmotif not only in my family but in the design world too, where people like Manolo Blahnik and stores like H&M have rediscovered it for spring. Like all other great design, Marimekko bridges the divide between the utilitarian and the fantastical. One area where fantasy is pivotal is in the retail world, specifically in window display. Nobody designs more magical windows, in my opinion, than New York City's Bergdorf Goodman, where creative director Linda Fargo and her team of visual experts draw on such disparate sources...
Most of all, I came to appreciate the sense of ownership Harvard has over its sensible New England architecture that schools modeled after foreign designs can’t claim. Though the style may be utilitarian and moderate, it certainly is unique among other American colleges. Duke looks like Princeton, which looks like Yale, which looks like Oxford, but Harvard just looks like Harvard. That unique, redbrick identity is more precious than any sculpted New Haven bell tower...