Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commissioned last year to design two new colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than...
...involved in a whole new language of form belonging to the present age." The U.S.'s new sculpture has indeed developed a provocative new vocabulary if not a language of form. But a vocabulary is not a work of art. So far, the new sculpture seems only a vernacular, still in search of its first master user-and its first masterpiece...
...their day into their masses. Most people in England, he argues, are responsive only to the kind of music purveyed on the mass-consumption mediums. What better way to enliven the average congregation's interest in the service than to greet it with the familiar, readily intelligible musical vernacular...
...waste of taxpayers' money because many men use it to get a college education and quit the Navy after serving their minimum three years. But the Holloway Plan flourished despite the criticism on 52 college campuses coast to coast, and a new quip passed into the Navy vernacular. The quip: "Did you get your commission the hard way [i.e., Annapolis] or the Holloway...
Your May 26 account of a young and inexperienced pastor getting his vestments singed is revealing. Sex is what you make it. For his students' parents, sex apparently is still a bestial pleasure, more lucid in the dark than in the vernacular...