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...converted into a gasoline station. In Buffalo, Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building, one of the most influential structures in modern architecture, was razed to make room for a trucking-company parking lot. Louisiana's Greek Revival Belle Grove, one of the most beautiful of ante-bellum plantation mansions, was burned to the ground by vandals as it stood abandoned. Baltimore has less than half a dozen structures left of its rich pre-Revolutionary heritage. In all, more than a quarter of the 7,600 buildings tagged by the National Park Service in 1933 as of historic...
Huxley's Horrors. Each took his time and made a horror comic of it. The characters are British middle and upper class of the great inter-bellum years-but Huxley's are drawn with a Daumier-like fascination and disgust, Waugh's by the lunatic but precise line of a Ronald Searle...
Band of Angels (Warner) is an epic that tries to convert the U.S. Civil War into a battle of the sexes. It is no better, no worse than Robert Penn Warren's best-selling novel (TIME. Aug. 22, 1955) in which the ante-bellum and wartime agonies of the South were portrayed as if the whole upheaval were a kind of apoplectic seizure under the magnolias...
...refused to rise to the bait, and notified the Army; the Army ordered the Pearson copy confiscated. Then Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker began padding around Capitol Hill in person picking up other copies from Alabama Congressmen. Back at Redstone, Army MPs burst into Nickerson's ante-bellum (1817) home, searched it from attic to basement, refused to let anybody in or out for 24 hours, and the Nickerson case...
Both economic necessity and natural inclination, caused Southerners in the post-bellum years to turn their educational energies toward developing a group of distinctively Southern schools. In this they were partially successful, but the limitations of educational provincialism became only too apparent...