Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harrison say they expect the NYU program will help to break down the unnecessary barriers that currently exist between the corporate and academic worlds...
Although some leaders of the business community "have started to give serious consideration" to graduate students and Ph.D.s in the humanities seeking jobs, Harrison says most corporate executives still consider these people as bad motivational risks, lacking the orientation necessary for conscientious corporate performance...
Student reaction to the recent presentation by May and Harrison appears mixed, with about 50 GSAS students requesting application forms for the program...
...Harrison, however, believe their program will have long-term effects. As they state in their NEH program proposal, "If hopes become realities, graduate humanities departments will be populated at the end of this century with students who seek college or university teaching as merely one of several possible career tracks...
...Mall in Albany, N.Y., demonstrates just how well ancient traditions can still serve architecture if the will (and the cash) is forthcoming. Architect Wallace K. Harrison, looking for a way to animate the plaza in designing the huge $1 billion-plus complex, went back to the idea of reflecting pools. And what reflecting pools they are! The largest is six hundred feet long and it sits in a park atop garages and a shopping mall. In winter part of it is frozen for skaters. Says Harrison: "It changes the feeling of the whole city of Albany...