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...DIED. PHILIP JOHNSON, 98, one of America's most innovative architects; in New Canaan, Connecticut. In the 1930s, Johnson helped introduce America to the European glass-and-steel Modernism that would come to dominate its skylines, and developed seminal works of the style such as the Seagram Building and his Glass House. "All that a nervous sensibility, lively intelligence and a stored mind can do, he does," said architectural historian Vincent Scully...
...reference made him restless. In 1984, with his Chippendale-topped AT&T building in Manhattan, he proclaimed himself postmodern. He was capable of very good buildings, like Pennzoil Place in Houston, and mere concoctions, like so many of his later-life office towers. And for a while in the 1930s his enthusiasms included fascism, a nasty episode of which he later repented. In a long, nimble career, his only constant was change. --By Richard Lacayo...
...borrow a line from Hemingway, it would be pretty to think so. In fact, history teems with elections that have led to neither peace nor more democracy, from 1930s Germany to today's Haiti, Russia and Pakistan. Elections, if free and open, are a good thing. But, as our Founding Fathers understood, they're only part of the alchemy by which societies conjure up stability, security and happiness for their citizens...
...Unhealed Wounds In response to TIME's cover story on the fractious political relationship between China and Japan [Nov. 29], I would note that the tide of history can sweep away many things, but it can't whitewash China's collective memory of the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. It has haunted the Chinese for decades. People were massacred, cities bombed, children orphaned and a country defeated. The invasion was the worst insult to China in the 20th century. As a civilized people, the Chinese practice tolerance and cherish forgiveness, but we cannot tolerate or forgive the revision of history...
...those to whom Mary Poppins means Julie Andrews' warm smile - almost everyone, in other words - that could be a problem. But Mackintosh, Schumacher and scriptwriter Julian Fellowes (best known for the films Gosford Park and Vanity Fair) all wanted to incorporate elements of the Mary from Pamela Travers' 1930s books - and she can be, well, a bit of a bitch. This Mary takes the children on adventures, then denies they ever happened - "her face was dark and terrible ? her very apron crackling with anger," writes Travers. Says Fellowes: "That contrast between the tough, cross nanny whom the adults can accept...