Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy, Elizabeth Bentley testified that White, carrying out Communist Party orders, was the architect of the Morgenthau plan for the postwar emasculation of Germany. White's boss, Henry Morgenthau Jr., carried this plan to the 1944 Quebec Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill. It called for the dismantling of German industry and the creation of a "pastoral" Germany. Witness Bentley said that this plan was espoused by Communist grand strategy to create a power vacuum between Russia and a weakened Western Europe, so that the whole Continent would be subject to the weight of Russian power...
...Early in life," says Frank Lloyd Wright, "I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility." Today, at 84. Architect Wright would never be accused of humble hypocrisy. But he is also revered, at home and abroad, as the world's greatest living architect. Last week the U.S. could take a long backward look at the array of Wright's achievements, expressed both in words and deeds...
Died. John Marin, 82, famed watercolor artist, regarded by many critics as America's greatest painter; at his seaside cottage in Addison, Me. A failure as a button salesman and later as an architect, at 28 he turned to art, opened his first big Manhattan exhibition in 1909, when he was 39. Marin scorned" formal training and academic styles ("If you put on the paint right...it will tell its own story"), saw his vivid land and seascapes sell for as much as $10,000 apiece, kept hard at work until shortly before his death...
Almost as astounding as the blunt confession was its authorship. For the last four years Nikita Khrushchev has been the chief architect of the program whose results he now deplored. He masterminded the agrogorod scheme, designed to further collectivize the already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land and into agricultural cities (agrogoroda). But by their quiet resistance, Russia's millions of muzhiks made the scheme a failure, drove Khrushchev into retreat. Result: the new policy grudgingly gives the peasants the right to own more livestock of their own, promises them big price increases for their requisitioned...
France's Architect Le Corbusier, the prophet of vertical living who thinks that even Manhattan skyscrapers are too small, came in for some criticism last week in London's Economist. His familiar prescription for overflow populations from ever-growing cities is the super apartment house, a kind of human hive (he has just finished a 20-floor prototype at Marseille, placing 1,500 people on a 450-by-66-ft. plot). The alternative, says the Economist, is the sprawling suburb, "the village green multiplied by unplanned expansion" that all too easily turns into an "amorphous and soulless mess...