Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loren, will become a contributor to the family cinematic combine at the tender age of six months. In I Girasoli (The Sunflowers), a Ponti production now filming in Moscow, Carlo Jr. will portray Sophia's infant son. "I managed to convince Carlo Sr. to allow our son to work in the movie so I could have my baby with me all the time," she said. "I don't want to be away from him for a moment." The script offers an arresting contrast to the Pontis' fireside felicity. An Italian woman, traveling on her earnings...
...staffers submitted to Max's economy in the interests of freedom and underground rebellion. They supplied their own typewriters, accepted salaries ranging downward from $80 a week-in the case of a dropout reporter from the Chicago Daily News, the remuneration of $7.25 for three weeks' work on an investigative story later picked up by the overground press...
...time. Artists Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky taught alongside Architects Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, among others, sharing their excitement with one another and the students. They brought together all the arts: weaving and furniture-making, as well as graphics, painting and architecture. Their work, regardless of medium, material or size, recognized the force of industrialism and the beauty of the machine. It was an entirely new way of looking at the world...
Though he was not Jewish, Gropius left Germany in disgust at the rise of the Nazis in 1934, worked in London for three years, then came to the U.S. In 1938, he accepted the post of chairman of Harvard's Department of Architecture, and the school quickly became the focus of young talent, including such now famous architects as Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Ulrich Franzen, John Johansen and I. M. Pei. Gropius insisted that their work meet society's needs and that they move ahead alongside industry-until then largely overlooked by architects as a partner in their...
...only after Gropius left Harvard in 1952 that the big, award-winning commissions started to come in: the U.S. embassy in Athens, the University of Baghdad, academic buildings for Phillips Academy at Andover, Harvard and Brandeis Universities. At his death, his firm had $315 million worth of work in progress, including a satellite city (named Gropiusstadt) outside Berlin, a vast medical complex in Boston, and the I.B.M. World Trade Center in Teheran...