Word: visual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent readjustment of Cambridge's traffic jam patterns inspired the city to install two large and several small traffic islands in the middle of Brattle Square. These, surfaced first with mud puddles and then iced with macadam, are now dead space. They offer no visual interest and serve no social function, except to prevent cars from doing U-turns from one one-way street to another...
Three dimensional objects could add further visual interest and provide a mental respite from workday affairs...
...umpires are giving the pitchers all the breaks," grouses Henry Aaron. Other batsmen blame their anemic averages on the hardships of coast-to-coast travel, the lengthened big-league schedule, the visual vicissitudes of night baseball, the spacious new ballparks that turn extra-base blasts into long outs, and the bushel-basket-sized gloves used by fielders today. Factors all, but the commanding factor still is a quantum improvement in pitching quality...
...scraping a knuckle inside an automatic transmission (though 80% of U.S. cars are shiftless). One-half of all shop students in the U.S. are plugging away at home economics and agriculture-hardly critical crafts-while only 15% practice more pertinent skills such as industrial design, medical technology and visual communications. "I worked in the shops for four years," says one still-unemployed electronics graduate of The Bronx's Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical High School. "I couldn't even get a job as an electrician's helper...
...library-research center at Harvard, a five-story building, will occupy a one-acre site at Brattle Street and Appian Way. It will provide study, research, and teaching space for faculty and students; stack space for 300,000 volumes: storage and work space for films, tapes, and other audio-visual materials; and a collection of current curriculum materials. It will be linked to the Harvard Computing Center and to WGNH-TV, he Boston educational station...