Word: blueprinter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Priestley had used an English professor and his family for a symbolic blueprint of contemporary England. The professor's wife wants to break with provincial university life; one daughter seeks salvation in science, another in religion; a son can see no salvation in anything, and has turned cynically to ?.s.d. To the professor, the best thing for a country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley...
Into the record went Henry's written polemic of 11,000 words, while, with Running Mate Glen Taylor at his side, he read abstracts from it. The Marshall Plan, he said, was a "blueprint" for war, a "colossal hoax" on the people of the U.S., and would "impose Washington and Wall Street intervention in the internal affairs of the participating countries." He had a counter proposal: the U.S. should give $50 billion to the United Nations to be spent for relief over the next ten years...
...Rain. Most of the projects shown have not progressed beyond the blueprint stage. But the cumulative evidence of Wright's designs-almost all of them planned during the last ten years-proved that he remains the most creative of living architects. In its introduction FORUM declares that Wright is "designing (and this is much more our tragedy than his) not for life as it is in our own perilous time, but for life as it can be-and some day will be." "I have $13 million worth of [building] lined up," Wright complained, "and can't build anything...
...nipped SR's development in the blueprint. But this week in the Saturday Review of Literature, Dr. Rolf Kaltenborn, son of Radiorator H. V. Kaltenborn and SR's most active convert, reported that Subscription Radio was about to have a "Pioneer Network . . . of ten regular broadcasting stations." Kaltenborn claimed to have "sufficient funds" to get his network started...
...integration born of the war together with the deeper factors of cross-cutting inherent in the House system and steady increase in class size which the Report explicitly set out to remedy. Pointing out that the "cornerstone of the Harvard alumni organization is the class," the Report offers a blueprint intended "to bring order out of chaos" on a matter of long-range import...