Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: Dec. 1, 1920, in Saint-Ceré (pop. 2,547) in France's Massif Central, youngest of an architect's seven children. Baptized Pierre...
...edict merely makes Amrita and Hari hold hands tighter in the corridors of the radio station. What finally loosens the young lovers' grip, and how, takes up the rest of this first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise but a virtue...
...talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
These are problems that every architect of a music auditorium has had to consider and solve, often by trial and error (many older halls have adequate acoustics because of such accidents of general design as coffered ceilings, panels, statuary, friezes, all of which helped to diffuse sound). But the chief factor that gives modern halls their characteristic clarity and brilliance is close control of reverberation, i.e., the prolongation of sound...
...year-old gilded Shwe Dagon, peace-loving Nikita Khrushchev was busily easing world tensions once again. "The oldest British church," he sneered, eying the Burmese shrine, "is only 1,000 years old, yet the British call you barbarians." Then, recalling the recent unpleasantness about Moscow Chief Architect Vlasov, who was blasted by his government while visiting the U.S., he singled out another Russian architect in Rangoon to cry, "Look out, comrade, I see you are standing with American and French reporters. They may try to persuade you to stay with the West as the stupid Americans and stupid Frenchmen tried...