Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked under calcium lights at night to have it open before the rival Grand Pacific Hotel. When Palmer lost, he grimly built a board-and-shingled shack in the lobby of his $2,500,000 hotel, labeled it: "This is what the Grand Pacific is made of." In time, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright ridiculed the gingerbready Palmer House as "an ugly old man whose wrinkles were all in the wrong place...
...around the Alps, south into Austria; of pneumonia; in San Antonio. A disciplinarian with "a temper like the devil before dawn," Sandy Patch also had deadpan wit and a soldier's knowledge of Kipling. A month before he died, he got the top job of his soldiering lifetime: architect-in-chief -of the postwar U.S. Army...
Conservatism, says Orton, may be the guardian of the community. "Liberalism is the architect of the community." "Where in this dies irae," he asks, "can the liberal find firm ground?" His answer: in the recovery of that religious spirit, which was liberalism's heritage from the Christian tradition, until igth-and 20th-century rationalism and materialism destroyed...
...refer to TIME's "piece" [Sept. 24] on the Imperial Hotel of Tokyo, Japan: I happen to be the architect, and the time-honored formula for an untimely finish seems to be already well into its second stage where TIME is concerned. The formula is: first, Success, then, Arrogance, then Downfall. I refer to an all too arrogant falsehood in the piece, which was not only a gross misrepresentation of my sentiments but proving in black & white that TIME can be a reckless liar...
...facts: Domei reported the hotel management's request, and TIME disrespectfully condensed arrogant Architect Wright's adjectival reaction...