Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guest. Earlier "Chubbs" had included such controversial figures as Glubb Pasha (former commander of the Arab Legion), Adlai Stevenson, Barry Goldwater and Henry R. Luce. This time students and faculty alike set New Haven palpitating with plans. Passes were issued to members of classes in which the honored visitor would lecture, so that outsiders would not usurp regulars' seats. Radical activists prepared an 18-point questionnaire calculated to embarrass him. Campus conservatives prepared their own rebuttals. Yet when Ronald Reagan showed up in New Haven last week, his hosts were surprised to find him an engaging fellow...
...past four decades, as the water level has fallen, the structure has settled 3 ft. 7 in. Cracks have appeared in walls and ceilings, and postwar smog has corroded the soft green lava rock used by Wright for the building's fantastic ornamentation. Concluded one recent visitor, Novelist Anthony West: the hotel is now "hideous, inconvenient, inadequate and a depressing eyesore...
...come into the Carpenter Center exhibition hall, take a quick look around, and walk out. Whether a visitor is attracted by the shape of the hall of Le Corbusier's only building in this country, or the chairs on exhibition, or the manner of their presentation, he will surely find somewhere to start and more to keep him going...
...allows sufficient space for the exhibition's text and material and compartments for the chairs and creates a flow around the hall that lets the visitor circulate without rushing about as on a Guggenheim Museum ramp...
...loan from collector John Sailer of Vienna and many museums. Katayama felt the need to solve this seemingly peripheral problem, which is crucial in terms of total space. He placed modern reproductions of the chairs along a wall of the room. Sitting in one of these chairs, a visitor ends his tour with a feeling for the interaction of Thonet, Katayama, and Le Corbusier.TOSHIRO KATAYAMA, graphic designer for the Visual Arts Center, designed the three posters above and arranged the Thonet exhibit...