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Today architects are developing uneasy qualms as the glass-curtain wall begins to turn whole streets into reflecting canyons and reinforced concrete seems headed toward a kind of new brutalism. As a result, the buildings Aalto has been quietly erecting among the pine forests and birch trees of his native Finland are coming up for a searching reevaluation. Result: Aalto's reputation is once again skyrocketing...
STORIES FROM A MING COLLECTION (205 pp.)-Translated by Cyril Birch-Indiana University...
Humanity & Virtue. Six of the stories that Feng collected-and presumably edited-have been translated by English Scholar Cyril Birch. Today's readers will have to suspend all their literary leanings to appreciate the tales. They move with remarkable smoothness, but their authors cared not a kumquat about probability or credibility in the modern sense. The plots are supported by coincidence, and the passage of years is treated as offhandedly as a spilled cup of tea. What makes them interesting centuries later is a mixture of lusty humanity and shrewd weighing of human nature, an awareness that life...
Only this year's captain Jerry Pyle, midfielder Charlie Devens, defensemen Ed Tarlov and Mike Adair, and goalies Stone and Howe are graduating. With the return of attackmen Bohn, Nick Lamont, and Andy Leaf; midfielders Tadgh Sweeney, Dick Parks--next years' captain--John Gould, and Dave Birch; defensemen Keyes, Bron Thayer, and Arnie Margolius, and the entire freshman team, the varsity should be much stronger next season...
...Morgan, Dick Parks, and Charlie Devens will probably start at midfield, with John Gould, Tadgh Sweeney, and Dave Birch alternating as the second unit...