Word: refashioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pace Setters. With the quickening in the architectural air even the oldtimers, once content merely to refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward sculptural plasticity. Redoubtable Frank Lloyd Wright, who once made his houses hug the earth, built Manhattan's still unfinished Guggenheim Museum of reinforced concrete in the form of a giant snail shell resting on its smallest point. Even the austere Mies van der Rohe, in his proposal...
...helpful than the Dean's. The Dean's notion that a college could make a man more than he is born was perhaps foolish, but it is a part of an endless effort. First there were parents, then there was God, and now there are educators, all trying to refashion...
...advance guard demands. Far from wishing to needle the bourgeoisie, as did the School-of-Paris moderns half a century ago, the young pioneers of American painting crave appreciation. When it is not forthcoming, some of them sulk and some shrug. But none of them seems to laugh. "To refashion the fashioned, lest it stiffen into iron, means an endless vital activity," they argue with Goethe. They solemnly reiterate that since impressionism, cubism and abstractionism have proved meaningful over the years, abstract expressionism will, too. And curiously enough, this wishful argument-by-analogy does cow some critics and win over...
...Columbia's Edward L. Thorndike developed ways of measuring intelligence and aptitude. To his disciples the millennium seemed at hand. At last, they announced triumphantly, there was no longer any need to follow oldtime curriculums blindly. Since memory, ability, interests, and even personality could be measured, educators could refashion their programs scientifically...