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...sometimes called "the best Prime Minister Britain never had"; in Great Yeldham, Essex, England. Butler was Under Secretary of State at the India Office early in his career and helped formulate the Government of India Act of 1935, which strengthened India's provincial legislatures. As a major architect of England's social reforms and development of the welfare state, he assisted in renovating his country's penal system, modernizing the public drinking laws and shaping an education act that gave every British child free secondary school education...
...Through it troop generations of disparate families as well as a feudal array of maids much given to the response "Yes, Missus." In the first episode, a brother and sister who have inherited the house argue testily about which of them is to have the dining room. Subsequently, an architect advises a psychiatrist purchaser of the house to split the room up into his office and a reception area...
Mondrian was not the only Dutch artist to pursue the dream of social renewal through ideal abstraction-though he was the most gifted one. What of his less renowned colleagues, painters like Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leek and Georges Vantongerloo, architect-designers like J.J.P. Oud or Gerrit Rietveld? Though they all used much the same language of geometrical shapes, primary colors and rectilinear layout, their variety as artists is faithfully rendered in the show...
DIED. Ayn Rand, 77, novelist and essayist, whose opinions inspired generations of conservatives, irritated liberals and entertained millions; in Manhattan. Born in Russia and educated at the University of Leningrad, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 and wrote the bestselling 1943 novel The Fountainhead, the story of an architect's uncompromising integrity. Yet her distinctive views were perhaps best summarized in the title of a 1965 work, The Virtue of Selfishness...
According to Dempster, Margaret's life thereafter was marked with irony and marred by men. Antony Armstrong-Jones appears as the villainous Earl of Snowdon, vulpine photographer and "failed architect." Though the couple's early years are, in Dempster's terse account, full of "sex, sex, sex," the earl is all too soon observed spending more time in boudoirs than in darkrooms. When the lonely princess and mother of two takes up with an eligible aristocrat, Roddy Llewellyn, the earl appears on television. There, playing the crocodile cuckold, he tearfully begs indulgence for Princess Margaret...