Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony No. 2, he has also composed choral works, incidental music for the theater, but no previous opera. For the past ten years all his composing has been on commission. Ignoring the many composers who work on hope and faith, he says: "A musician is like an architect; nobody is going to draw plans until someone is ready to put up a building...
White-bearded, beaming Talbot Hamlin, an architect who has built houses, banks and colleges from Nanking to Manhattan, settled down eight years ago as librarian of the Avery Library to view architecture from the sidelines and to write the finest popular book (Architecture Through the Ages; Putnam; $6) in English on its history. Though he views the past greatness of Mexican architecture with a historian's enthusiasm, he believes that the best contemporary Latin-American architecture is being done by the Argentines and Brazilians, who today are rivaling the finest modern architects of the U.S. and Europe...
What Loewy's staff thinks a railroad station should be is exemplified in two brand-new, spick & span stations of the Pennsylvania, designed by Loewy Architect Lester Claude Tichy, which last week awaited only a job of spring landscaping before making their full-dress bow to the traveling public. These stations (at Edgewood, Md. and Ridley Park, Pa.) are as light, airy and cheerful as a country-club terrace...
...that afternoon the Lafayette burned. Held back by policemen, Army & Navy patrols, crowds choked the streets, jammed skyscraper windows. Among the watchers was a small, greying man with a heavy accent. With agonized eyes Vladimir Yourkevitch, naval architect, designer of the ship's hull, watched the Lafayette burn. Suspicious policemen refused to let him through the lines. In the pier shed beside the ship, tall, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Chief of the Third Naval District, watched...
...Parisians the dream of history is caught in the web of streets where the Nazis last week stolidly laid waste-in preparation, it was said, for a rebuilding job designed by no less an architect than Adolf Hitler. A brave letter appeared in Figaro: "Paris, which in June of 1940 miraculously escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered...