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They are not the work of crackpots but of reputable men, some of them geniuses. Leonardo himself designed an "ideal city," and Piranesi planned a "cultural center" of moats and courtyards that seemed to fit inside each other like Chinese boxes. More recently, the visionaries have been apt to reflect Le Corbusier's warning that "the problem of the century is the problem of the city." Dismayed by blight and overcrowding, Kiyonori Kikutake designed a city over water consisting of a huge floating deck that would be pierced by great concrete cylinders lined with dwellings. Buckminster Fuller planned...
...course of this rather haphazard series of essays, Galbraith provides some comments relevant to Goldwater, Bowles and, in particular, the 1960 campaign. Since Galbraith comments have a way of standing on their own, it may be sufficient to merely quote a few that seem particularly apt...
...second time to see if any air masses on the same level are moving rapidly past each other. If this is the case, he marks another area on his map (see diagram). If the areas overlap, the overlap has the two necessary kinds of violent shear. It is therefore apt to be full of wing-wracking CAT. The troubled air is usually only a few thousand feet thick, and it slopes upward, its high end toward a slow-moving air mass that is being jostled by the speedy jet stream...
...offending master disk over his knees, as he did at Naples a few years ago, destroying two weeks' work. On the concert stage he is equally unpredictable, sometimes performing in a sport coat or overcoat before audiences in dinner jackets or tails. He balks at applause, is apt to stalk away from cries for encores...
High up in his office in Manhattan's Seagram Building, which he helped Mies build. Johnson is apt to feel a bit wistful about the old days. "Of course I'm nostalgic for the old period of battle when we all fought for the International Style. Everyone hates labels, but that's what we were-there was a style, a movement, a discipline." Now, says Johnson, architecture is moving not in one direction but many. The result may be chaos, but there could also be even more excitement...