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...says Mary Daniels, curator of the retrospective with Inés Zalduendo. In addition to his work as an architect, Sert was also an educational innovator, creating the first formal urban design program while dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 1950s...
When my parents were children—and it’s true, the 1950s were ages ago—people grew up in cities or towns or even neighborhoods. They self-identified with these places, these distinctly different hometowns, and were tied irrevocably to them. More than just Americans, they were citizens of their hometowns...
...became actively involved with the boys’ choir, where Law sang as a Harvard student in the 1950s, and continued to support its activities after leaving the parish...
After moving from Cairo to the U.S. in the 1950s, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and then a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He went on to become a visiting professor here...
...Chinese have looked to the skies ever since Wan Hu, a 14th century carpenter, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair affixed with kites, ignited them and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. The modern program traces its roots to the 1950s, when the U.S. deported Qian Xuesen, one of its foremost rocket scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, for being a suspected red. Qian returned to China, helped reverse-engineer a Russian R-2 rocket (an improved version of the infamous German V-2) left behind by Soviet advisers...