Word: pleasingness
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Work for Others. One of Phenix's most promising approaches to "worth" is through esthetics, as applied to everything from art and science to manners, work and recreation. His students would be thoroughly trained in the esthetic meaning of integrity-the harmony of contrasting parts in one pleasing whole...
The Ivy League, based on this thinking, is to be judged not by the standard of top-notch performance in the stadia, but by the question "Does this type of program contribute more or less to the educational process?" Quite obviously it contributes more: because at an ivy college, anyone...
Mr. Candela's genius has not been solely in what amounts to the "sculpture" of aesthetically pleasing structures, however; the architectural concept he has developed over the past ten years now makes possible the construction of these buildings at costs in many cases lower than those of more conventional projects...
But there are many different curved surfaces which an architect might wish to use in a building, and no single quality of the hyperbolic paraboloid is unique. One might naturally wonder why this surface should be any better than some other of a slightly different but equally pleasing shape.
But Hughes earned his own win. Working 20 hours a day, he logged a remarkable 60,000 miles in crisscrossing New Jersey. He visited each of the state's 21 counties at least twice, concentrating on Republican strongholds. By his own estimate, he shook some 300,000 hands; he...