Word: forms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Christians must be humbly aware that in many cases, out-and-out secularists are morally better than they are. ¶LOGICAL POSITIVISM. Niebuhr now defends the modern philosophical school which concentrates on language and meaning, rather than on attempting to build systems of thought. In its original form, this school denied meaning to any statement that was not either logical, self-evident or scientifically verifiable. But analytical philosophy, thinks Niebuhr, has matured, and he now feels that it "has freed us from engaging in rational but spiritually irrelevant 'proofs' [of God's existence], freed...
...itself American Savoyards does a different Gilbert & Sullivan operetta each week, has won so large a following that it has already staged second repeat performances of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. An idea of rare originality is realized in The Fantasticks, a musical in masque form based on Rostand's Les Romanesques. Since last spring, Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane (1917) has been exploiting a rich vein of nostalgia: snowy-browed patrons go back and back again, are beginning to do the same at a new production of George Gershwin...
...Kahn, the great moment in architecture was when "the walls parted and the column became." But he does not believe that columns need look like classic colonnades-all form and no function except to support the roof. He has planned one towering office structure that looks like giant Tinker Toys studded with pyramid-shaped joints that are used as service areas. "I like my buildings to have knuckles," he explains. "Joints are the beginning of ornament." He has also used daring devices in more down-to-earth buildings. His Yale Art Gallery, for example, uses exposed reinforced concrete tetrahedrons...
...soar 25 ft. above the roof. In place of the usual hallway cubicles, Kahn gave the researchers clear, unpartitioned studio spaces. His next project: a new research institute in San Diego. Calif, for Polio Vaccine Discoverer Dr. Jonas Salk. which Kahn intends to make "a realm of spaces" where form will truly enhance the institute's function as an academy of biology...
Kahn applies his concept of form and function to the greatest single problem facing architects today: finding a solution to the choking clutter of the nation's big cities. Fascinated since his student travels abroad by the medieval walled city of Carcassonne in France, he came to the conclusion that what gave it coherence was that every aspect of the city was ordered around a single principle, namely, defense. Today Kahn believes that the modern city will renew itself around the principle of movement. His fertile imagination visualizes the idea in terms of a river. Great expressways would channel...