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...Professor Wassily Leontief, head of the Harvard Society of Fellows, approached Rothko with a proposal to donate his artwork for the society's new meeting place, the penthouse of the Holyoke Center, to be designed by noted architect Jose Luis Sert, who also designed the Science Center and Peabody Terrace. Rothko, enamored with dreams of creating a public space with his artwork, was eager to bring this vision to fruition. Ideally, Rothko preferred that the viewer stand a mere 18 inches away from the surface of his paintings, so that his glowing canvases governed even peripheral vision. And still, what...
Friends and colleagues describe Leontief as an academic free thinker. When students took over University Hall in 1969, Leontief sided with a younger group of professors who sympathized with students' concern. He also challenged the teaching situation at the University, saying that teachers spent too much time theorizing and less time gathering facts, which should constitute the meat of their work...
Dorfman said that Leontief's prominence was due to his meticulous compilation and analysis of evidence, which was deficient in academia at the time...
...Leontief accepted a position at New York University (NYU), which offered him a lucrative job in their department of economics...
...Leontief taught at NYU as the Director of the Institute of Economic Analysis until his retirement in 1990. He continued to do research on economic input-output analysis, advising many foreign countries, including China, to increase their industrial production...