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...school budget two years ago, 30,000 citizens signed petitions opposing the cut; hundreds came to a public hearing to praise the school system and attack the city manager. "Revolutions happen not suddenly but after a long accu- mulation of grievances and awareness of defects," says Philosopher Mortimer Adler, who is optimistic that the re-forms will continue. "This is the first time that the central matter is being discussed teaching and learning. Not civil rights or free lunches or girls vs. boys." If state legislatures, public forums and PTA meetings are any indicators, Americans seem to be reaffirming...
...Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain...
While Louis Sullivan was working on public buildings, what few commissions Adler & Sullivan were given for private houses fell to Frank Lloyd Wright. In the next twenty years he designed and built, for clients scattered throughout the Midwest, nearly 100 houses for which no precedent existed anywhere. In leafy suburbs of Chicago these houses still look strangely civilized and sheltered, with low vistas and wide-spreading eaves. "Taking a human being for my 'scale,' " Wright has said, "I brought the whole house down in height to fit a normal one-ergo, 5'8" tall, say. . . ." But though...
...Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain...
...Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain...