Word: wood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...General Leonard Wood, chief of staff under President Theodore Roosevelt, had come to Harvard in the fall and urged that an adequate military reserve be maintained. The possibility of creating summer training camps was raised and in February, 1913 representatives of the Navy discussed the suggestion at the Union. Both proposals had the endorsement of President Lowell and were applauded in the CRIMSON. But, at the time, there was little reason for students to be preoccupied with these ideas, and most of the intramural debate that winter was concerned with the question of making hockey a major sport...
Fear of Panic. Inspired by this happy thought, Bojarsky set to work reading books about papermaking, visiting pulp factories on guided tours. Then, using a combination of rain water, cigarette paper and other wood fibers, he mixed his first batch of pulp in a secondhand bidet. Helas! The first sheet that he pressed looked "like a crepe suzette." Bojarsky persevered, made his first contribution to the wealth of society by passing one of his homemade franc notes in return for his Christmas chicken...
...play area is a progression of delights. From the sand pit, wood-block stepping stones lead hippety-hop to a tree house, added at Mrs. Astor's special request. Next comes a child-size maze made of rough concrete emblazoned with abstract symbols painted in bright primary colors. "It was all planned," says Friedberg, "as a continuous play experience, rather than a collection of static objects attached to an asphalt base...
...Some of the objects have the look of an old-fashioned surrealist leg pull. Carl Andre's Lever, for instance, is 100 ordinary firebricks laid on the floor in a straight line. Sol Lewitt's No Title is a 6-ft.-sq. jungle gym of white painted wood (the idea is to look through the structure, not at it). But essentially the new minimalart movement announces that the engineers have now decided to make art their playground.* Much as the pop artists were recruited from the ranks of commercial and advertising artists, the basic-structure boys...
...anxious throng returned and the movie took up where it had left off with Natalie Wood saying...