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Anouilh, best known in the U.S. for Becket and The Lark, likes to divide his plays into categories, calling some "black," like Antigone, some "rose," like Time Remembered, others "brillant" (sparklingly theatrical mixtures of the light and dark), like The Rehearsal, and still others "grating"-Waltz of the Toreadors. But everything Anouilh does springs from a pervading and indivisible pessimism. He is a cynic uncongealed: the wound remains open. Abandoned ideals and buoyancies can be seen within. And when he turns on the times, his bite is bitter: "Give us a bit more comfort! That's our battle...
...airfield, a 27-acre, man-made lake with marina, boats, and an island on which a smaller lake is stocked for fishing, a night-lighted golf course and driving range, a shopping center, two motels, a restaurant, two swimming pools, and a Congregational church. And Los Angeles Architect Welton Becket is building a 260-acre Century City on the old 20th Century-Fox lot near Beverly Hills, which will contain 20 office buildings, 20 high-rise apartment houses, an 800-room hotel, a large regional shopping center and a resident population of 12,000 (a working population...
Born. To Peter O'Toole, 29, fast-rising Irish cinemactor (Lawrence of Arabia), currently making Becket with Richard Burton, and Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, 28: a second child, second daughter; in Dublin...
Designed by Architect Welton Becket (who has worked on the new airports expansion projects at Los Angeles and San Francisco), McCarran Field's 38,850 sq. ft. hexagonal waiting building consists of three identical sweeps of vaulted concrete like wings, arching from the ground to a 45-ft. peak, and illuminated by vast areas of tinted glass "to portray the beauty and grace of soaring flight and the simplicity and endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will...
...looming over the entrance like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney. » THE BELL SYSTEM PAVILION, its ancient bell symbol blazoned incongruously on a dynamic modern facade...