Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maximum feasible use," Weese says. "You have to concentrate on what not to do. If you touch one thing, like the plumbing, you can sometimes start a chain reaction." As much as possible, he follows the original plans. That takes selflessness, the willingness to let a long-dead architect dictate nearly every step. But, Weese wryly notes, "Modern architects have a hard time matching the quality of work of the old masters...
Despite this semi-official speculation on progress, there are individuals, including city councillor Saundra Graham, as well as citizens' groups who will not on faith alone accept architect Monacelli's views. Brooks himself remarked that he "could not say with assurance that the Kennedy Library was here to stay...
...Times issue of June 23 was rolling off the presses with a lead editorial titled "Poulson and Watergate"; the paper urged that a public tribunal of inquiry be established to investigate the affairs of Architect John Poulson and the widespread charges of kickbacks in British public housing construction. With 46,000 copies left to print, Times editors learned that Poulson had been arrested and charged with conspiracy after a police investigation. According to British law, the instant a civil or criminal matter is formally brought before a court, newsmen risk jail for contempt if they publish more about the case...
Curiously, though, the five foremost practitioners of the genre were far from prolific. Etherege wrote only three plays; Wycherley, four; Vanbrugh (also renowned as an architect), three and a half; Congreve (the most accomplished of the group), five; and Farquhar, seven and a half. This corpus laid the foundation and set the standard for the two supreme masterpeices of the genre: Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a century later; and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, two centuries later...
Died. Georges Bonnet, 83, last important political survivor of the French Third Republic; in Paris. Bonnet was best known as an architect of the ill-fated Munich Pact with Hitler in 1938. Ambassador to the United States in 1937, he was a Cabinet Minister in no less than 18 of his country's governments between 1925 and 1939. Charges against Bonnet of collaborating with the Nazis as a member of the Vichy government were dropped in 1949. He returned from exile in Switzerland to serve for another twelve years in the National Assembly...