Word: yale
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...does Ma get away with it? Some say his age saves him; others speak of a powerful friend. A mandarin trained before World War I at Yale and Columbia (he wrote a thesis on New York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. The seventh volume in the delightful Yale University series takes Bozzy through his sometimes tumultuous first years as a husband and Edinburgh attorney...
Express the Uplift. Rudolph last year completed his second major building, Yale's Greeley Forestry Laboratory. To dramatize the strength of precast concrete, Rudolph opened up the capitals until they became widespread Ys. He winced when his building was promptly dubbed the "concrete orchard," but insisted stubbornly: "A column is really holding something up. It should express this uplift...
...Cross-Blue Shield Building, in which air-conditioning ducts swarm over the facades like great vines. ("Mechanical equipment eats up 35% to 40% of the budget, and this is an area architects have simply not exploited.'') On his own, Rudolph has just had his design accepted for Yale's new Art and Architecture building ("All hell breaks loose on the roof"), is hard at work on a three-block-long parking garage for New Haven's Church Street Project that looks like a Roman aqueduct. ("Automobiles should have their own architecture...
...latest volume of the delightful Yale University series, The Private Papers of James Boswell (seven published, eight or ten to come) opens in 1769, when Boswell is a fast-rising, 29-year-old Edinburgh lawyer. Thanks to his bestselling book, The Account of Corsica, he is also a writer perhaps better known on the Continent than Sam Johnson himself. Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved. When he visits London in 1772 without his wife, he is tempted by "a variety...