Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architect Kiesler's "Endless House" is neither revolutionary nor adventurous; it is merely a Stone Age cave turned inside out. WILLIAM LAGES Torrance, Calif...
...vital key to Lewis Strauss's character is a perfectionism that still seems to nag him at an age when he might have become more mellowed. It shows in the studied elegance of his tailoring, in a precision of speech that comes natural to him from long habit but seems a bit affected to unfriendly ears, and above all in a fierce reluctance to admit his mistakes, no matter how human and understandable they may have been. Some of his perfectionism traces back to a sense of being an outsider. As a Jew, he has sometimes felt the wounding...
...folks-grandfather and grandmother-could live in the same home after their days of hard work were ended. That's the way we took care of ourselves and our older people. Today, through the changes in our industrial system, we as a people have become dependent for old-age security more and more upon pensions, insurance policies, savings bonds and savings accounts. These are the people that are particularly hurt by depreciation of the dollar...
Asked last week if he ever failed an assignment, Osborn seemed almost surprised, snapped: "Negative." And as George Washington stood poised for launching, it was clear that her skipper planned affirmative results in one of the most important jobs in the age of the atom...
...when your hands are wobbling, but when your feet start wobbling, too . . ." On that nervous note, the teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize...