Word: vinci
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like many another schoolboy, Giuseppe Conte, 16, a sophomore at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci High School, felt misunderstood. He was sure, for instance, that his math teacher had it in for him. He was always prepared, Giuseppe assured his parents, but Professor Renzo Modugno, a crippled war veteran, twisted the questions so he couldn't possibly answer. Last week, when the semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked...
...work of da Vinci...
...Harvard College, which callously bounced him in the teens of the century, Bucky Fuller is today a teacher whose mind bestrides the most colossal problems of life and living, and whose proposals can be called provocative, if not provoking. Bucky Fuller's idolaters compare him to Leonardo da Vinci, and even his detractors do not view him as an ordinary man. "Don't underestimate Bucky," warned one of them recently. "He might be a fake, but he's certainly a Force...
...lonely, moody man consumed by the religious revolts of the times, that he was court painter to the archbishops of Mainz and Halle for 17 years, that he married but had no children, that he may have visited Italy in 1509 to see the work of Leonardo da Vinci and other Italian masters, and that he died during the 1528 plague in the town of Halle, in disgrace, possibly because of his Lutheran sympathies...
...genius in the advisory group is France's cranky Le Corbusier, long a major architectural prophet. In 1936, he helped Brazil's fiery Oscar Niemeyer design a government building (see cut) which obviously served as an important U.N. source. Niemeyer calls his French collaborator "the Leonardo da Vinci of modern times." Now, in his brand-new Marseille apartment house, which has a richness of color and surface that the U.N. notably lacks, Corbusier points the way to even more impressive slabs...