Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town of Paris in the nation's western desert, he can bring the cost down to $500 per unit, including a kitchen and a latrine. He designs housing so that peasants can build it much as their fathers did in the past. No structural steel, concrete or wood is needed, just mud bricks and the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia. As a result, he says, he has "a billion clients" -the world's poor...
...used structural materials, the house became too expensive for the peasants. If I tried to build a vaulted roof using only mud bricks, the whole thing collapsed." The problem was that a vault, like any arch, has structural strength only when it is complete, and the peasants lacked wood to support the arch while it was being built. Still, Fathy remembered that the ancient Egyptians had somehow built sturdy houses of the same material. But, he says, "I feared that the secret had been lost...
...Harvard team finished second to MIT in competition at MIT for the Wood trophy for Tech Dinghys, Saturday. The Crimson raced in four divisions against the other four members of the NCAA Sailing Association--Brown, Dartmouth, MIT and Coast Guard...
...Crimson was the defending titleholder of the Wood trophy and Harvard coach Mike Horn said last night he had thought the team had been strong enough to retain its title, even though their best sailor, Terry Neff, was on leave...
...tune is marked instrumentally by the melodic exchange between organ and synthesizer which further on develops into an exchange of several phrases between Wood's flute and Winwood's piano. The piece reaches its climax with several rapid-fire sax glissandos and the re-entering of the synthesizer. There is not only a shift in melody and countermelody among instruments, but a shift in rhythm, too. Finally, in the title cut, Winwood delivers one of his most vocally concentrated efforts with lyrics along the same theme as "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired...