Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Despite the assertion that a women's center would welcome everyone, it is highly unlikely that those oblivious to women's issues would flock to it. A women's center would really serve as a special interest resource with very little (positive) influence on the Harvard community as a whole...
Philadelphia has long held a special place in American affections as a cradle of liberty. Now the nation's fifth largest metropolis (pop. 1.5 million) seems about to win a new reputation -- as the first major U.S. city to go to the verge of fiscal collapse since Boston hit the skids in 1980. Plagued with rising needs, a shriveled treasury, dubious credit and ineffectual leaders, Philadelphia last week was sliding toward budgetary disaster. What may have been its last hope, a big new loan guarantee from the Swiss Bank Corp. fizzled at midweek, prompting two Wall Street credit-rating agencies...
...unusual difficulties Pelli faced -- squeezed site, Carnegie Hall as partner and next-door neighbor -- are what have made the new tower so special and grand. "Constraints," the architect says, "are not necessarily negative. They force you to try avenues you would have ignored." Contextualism has been the urban-design buzz word of the past decade, but no architect has done a better job of fitting a big building into such an important, tightly woven urban fabric. The 535,000-sq.-ft. tower is technically an addition to Carnegie Hall and takes important aesthetic cues from...
...White House column, he will contribute dispatches from around the country under the rubric "Hugh Sidey's America." Says he: "I will go exploring in the open spaces that lie between the great urban centers, trying to figure out what's changing out there, what moves those special people who cling to the land through economic and natural hardship...
...political ramifications as well as battlefield tactics; the lives of common soldiers along with great generals. There are segments on food and drink at the front lines, the participation of blacks in the Union Army, the role of women and the use of spies. The series has a special knack for resonant details and lucid generalizations. The unprecedented number of casualties, explains Foote, was due to the fact that war's technology had outstripped tactics: bayonet charges were outmoded, but few generals realized it. After its conquest by the Union Army on the Fourth of July in 1863, the city...