Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gerald M. McCue, professor of Architecture and Urban Design and new dean of the GSD as of June 1980, said Bok decided to shift the program because it had moved further and further away from the traditional planning curriculum goals...
...other hand, students feared their shift to the Kennedy School would close them off from the training in physical design the have been seeking for months...
...group decided to shift CRP to the K-School because it saw a growing divergence of the program, which has emphasized the public policy aspects of planning, from the Design School as a whole, whose primary concern has been physical aspects, McCue said. He added that CRP currently emphasizes the use of analytical methods derived from the social sciences and "often doesn't deal with making physical plans...
...symmetrical Palladian porticoes, marbled rooms with glowing frescoes and statuary, formal gardens opening on cypress-dotted vistas. Losey scatters the action of the opera over every photogenic square foot of them. Characters grope endlessly down pillared corridors, wander around outdoors and are unaccountably set afloat on gondolas. Consecutive scenes shift disconcertingly from nighttime to broad daylight and back again. Most of the music is lip-synched to a prerecorded track; inside or out, wind or rain, we hear the souped-up ambience of the recording studio. The result is that characters who ought to be interacting lose touch with each...
...open and buy a few books was a more immediate concern to most librarians. Delegates were united in a call to reapportion library funding from towns and cities to the Federal Government, which now pays only 5% of national library costs. A U.S. Senate proposal to study such a shift has been sponsored by New York Senator Jacob Javits. Like many another U.S. child of immigrant parents, Javits traces his rise from poverty to the hours he spent after school-working away in the neighborhood public library on the Lower East Side...