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...process of selling some beer. The new American mood was, if anything, eminently commercial. Whether one described it as enlightened self-interest or shrewd crassness, the old American talent for making a buck was alive and well. And after a hard passage through the deepest recession since the '30s, Americans were not cavalier about the gift...
...film. "During summer tours actors were pumping on the pump in Harvard Yard," which Sanks said piqued tourist interest. He added that the pump outside Hollis Hall, is a replica of a real pump which students blew up, as a practical joke, sometime in the 1920s or 30s...
Aalto's first great work of architecture, a tuberculosis hospital built near Paimio, Finland, during the late '20s and early '30s, accounted for his most original and visually powerful piece of furniture. The main wing of the sanitorium resembles an airy ocean liner, and the Paimio Loungechair could pass for a rarefied deck chair...
Aalto's furniture was never again so dashing and hard-edged. He spent the '30s making cantilevered chairs, each a reworking of an idea that the Bauhaus stars Breuer and Mart Stam had established using tubular steel in the '20s. The cantilever is springy, like an athlete's crouch. Indeed, Aalto's cantilevered chairs have a cheerfully anthropomorphic profile. His most splendid variations on the theme also seem the most characteristically Scandinavian: after he had tried seats and backs of plain plywood and boxy upholstery, Aalto designed birch frames crisscrossed with black linen webbing...
...implied article of faith in Abel's reminiscences is that with the exception of Manhattan island, real life was best lived overseas. During the mid-'30s, one could battle for the moral high ground in the Spanish Civil War. After 1945 there was Paris, where one could mix with American writers, painters, musicians and, if Lionel Abel, lunch with the reigning philosopher of the left, Jean-Paul Sartre...