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Thirty years ago Walter Gropius came to Harvard. This was the beginning of the end of the beaux arts system of education in the United States. Since that time the design professions have become increasingly aware of their responsibility to create an environment that is more than an act of will. The formalist traditions are giving way to something much more complex, appropriate, and exacting. At one time the environment was from, and the architect could justifiably freeze music, but today the situation is much different. The new architecture is a broad and detailed response to society. As such...
...permanent memorial to the men who got New York started. Next to it he State Capitol itself, and explosion in stone of the exuberance and pride of the men who won the Civil War. Across the way, the State Education Building, not very good turn-of-the-century beaux art, more French poodle corinthian thany anything else, but trying. Behind it the Alfred E. Smith Office Building, an honest skyscraper of the Empire State era, and a good one. And mercifully, far away, the utterly sterile and deadly departmental buildings...
...Together with a friend, Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), Millie wanders dizzily around town, avoiding the clutches of a wicked witch of a whiteslaver (Beatrice Lillie) and her gang of scrutable Orientals. In the last reel, both girls foil the villains and tie up their happiness with big pink beaux (James Fox and John Gavin...
...based on hysterical inaccuracies, the strain in Spain lies mainly in Actor Ferrer, who portrays the temper of genius with a flatness more appropriate to Toledo, Ohio. Dressed in custom-tailored smocks and tunics, Mel looks like nothing so much as a paid escort en route to the Beaux-Arts Ball...
...green Sting Ray convertible for a while, but this nettled Pat's pride; he borrowed his father's 1963 Plymouth until he bought his own car. Yet it was several weeks before Washington gossips realized that Students Jack Olsen and Paul Betz, Luci's previous best beaux, had a successor. The reason for the recognition lapse was simply that her new escort, with his aseptic, athletic good looks, short blond hair and modest mien, resembled any number of the Secret Service agents in Luci's orbit...