Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fourth-graders at Gaines Road Elementary School in Athens, Ga., cluster before a brightly colored 30-by-45-in. game board. It depicts a small city complete with houses, stores and factories all encircled by forests, ponds, a marsh and a river. The teacher proposes that an airport be built over the marsh and a marina along the river. Both projects are quickly voted down by the youngsters -for sound ecological reasons...
...school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster of radic-libs cowers as a troglodytic terrorizer in tailored twill cracks a whip over their heads. At last the President slips into the sleep of serenity and contentment...
...many urban-renewal projects, Ponte learned how even one strategically located building could improve a city's tax structure as well as its aesthetic ambiance. He discovered something else: "The feet have their own reasons. The activities that make a city-shopping, finance, law, culture-usually cluster within walking distance of one another. That is why downtowns seldom grow bigger than 200 acres...
...refuse to talk to the bourgeois press," Dick Cluster, another Mole staff member, said in response to a CRIMSON reporter's questions...
...solution was planning, a specialty of the Pei office. Henry Cobb, partner in charge, started by creating a visual frame. He designed a poplar-lined road that traces an almost complete circle from a cluster of old buildings to the outermost playing fields and back again. Then he intercepted the circle with five new academic buildings (a student center, lecture hall, library, administration building and arts center) set along an angular pedestrian "spine." These new buildings gave personality and vigor to the college and landscape, thus resolving Fredonia's great problem of formless anonymity. Moreover, they never turn their...