Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to live down the public's misconception that an architect is an impractical, long-haired artist. Design is important, but science of construction and dollars and cents imperative...
Doing Less. Architect of the French plan is shrewd little Vice Premier Paul Reynaud, who visualizes a new French Union with wider, less binding provisions, after the style of the British Commonwealth, one which offers the small, weak states many advantages, but from which they may secede at will. "I don't see how that could happen," he adds, "because they wouldn't last 24 hours." At week's end, Viet Nam had accepted the French proposals, Laos was undecided, but Cambodia's King Norodom was acting as cagily as Syngman Rhee...
What makes architecture modern? Writing in the current Harper's, Architect Harrison Gill, 56, of Chattanooga, Tenn., answers his own question with one word: "Tension." Writes Gill...
...heroine, Maggie McNamara has a pert, wide-eyed, fresh-scrubbed charm. David Niven is appropriately debonair as the playboy. In the role of the architect, William Holden does one of his easy, authoritative acting jobs, that is all the more effective for not seeming like acting at all. The trio of leading characters appear as likable, essentially well-behaved people, in a picture that is always sophisticated, literate and in good taste...
...tells of a shrewdly naive young girl who makes monkeys out of a couple of wolves by alternately teasing, tempting and mothering them. The girl and a handsome young architect meet by chance atop the Empire State Building observation tower, and wind up in his apartment. A middle-aged playboy enters the scene. The proceedings are, however, scrupulously moral. The girl is a charmingly outspoken young creature who is adequately armed with her own innocence. The architect is an honorable fellow (he gets the girl to the altar in the end). Even the roue becomes talkative and rueful when...