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...CONSTRUCTION. Construction must be understood as the coordinating function of Constructivism. If the tectonic unites the ideological and formal, and as a result gives a unity of conception, and the factura is the condition of the material, then the construction discovers the actual process of putting together . . . the formation of conception through the use of worked material. All hail to the Communist expression of material building!" (from Constructivism by Alexci Gan, the first important publication of the Constructivist group's ideology...
...with the Constructivist cry, "Art into life!" (Vladimir Tatlin) an antecedent to the Bauhaus declaration, "That design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of life" (Walter Gropius). And growing from these ideas of incorporation of art in life, came "an architecture whose function is clearly recognizable in the relation of its form" (Gropius). Constructivist experiments in typography and layout led to Bauhaus block lettering. Non-objective paintings-Malevitch's Suprematist black squares on white backgrounds, and white on white, or black on black-led to Bauhaus organization and simplication with triangle, square...
...President of Radcliffe, for example, would become a Harvard Dean, appointed by the governing boards of Harvard and Radcliffe. She would be given the special function of "initiating and extending educational opportunities for women within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...could be found. As the war has turned, the nimbus of heroism dissolved. At the beginning of the year, the Green Berets turned over their last camps to the South Vietnamese troops. Last week, the Army announced that as an official unit the Green Berets have ceased to function in Viet...
...remarkable Soviet achievement raised further doubts about U.S. emphasis on costly and risky manned space flights. In Moscow, Russian scientists belatedly revealed that the unmanned space probe Venera 7, which reached Venus on Dec. 15, had survived its descent through the murky Venusian atmosphere and continued to function after landing. Its radio transmissions carried the first scientific data to be transmitted to earth from the surface of another planet...