Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these charred, strewn, gaping images, signed by such names as Wren, Adam, Nash, Soane and Stuart, make a moving reaffirmation of their dignity and style. Ruin sometimes adds beauty as well as pathos. Says Architectural Writer J. M. Richards in an eloquent preface: "The architecture of destruction not only possesses an aesthetic peculiar to itself, it contrives its effects out of its own range of raw materials. Among the most familiar are the scarified surface of blasted walls, the chalky substance of calcined masonry, the surprising sagging contours of once rigid girders and the clear siena colouring...
...Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church displayed a rare 1617 "Breeches Bible," so called because it says that Adam & Eve "sewed figgetree leaves together and made themselves breeches...
...broken men feel welcome. Dockers, Forth riveters, nurses, generals, sergeants, privates, onlookers and excited children laughed, wept, blew their noses hard. Cripples, as they came ashore, thumped the Scottish ground with their crutch tips, said: "By God. It's good." In the hubbub few heard General Sir Ronald Adam read a message from Their Majesties, beginning: "The Queen and I bid you a very warm welcome. . . . We rejoice to think that you are safely home...
...reading: books on India, Bishop Butler, Adam Smith, Hume, Gibbon, the Bible, anti-slavery pamphlets, reports...
...economic thimblerigging." But to Dr. Smyth, who was a Liberty Leaguer in 1936, Beard insists that the New Deal has stayed pretty well within the bounds of constitutionalism. The Founding Fathers, says Beard, did not believe in the doctrines of economic laissez faire that are usually attributed to Adam Smith. They were, as a matter of fact, 18th-Century "mercantilists" in their primary economic assumptions. Their "mercantilism" implied a belief in Federal interference with economic matters and they expressly gave Congress the power to "regulate" commerce between the States. Subsidies, tariffs, economic prohibitions, government investment in roads and canals...