Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tivoli Gardens. Boy!" The younger Saarinen clinched his position as top U.S. architect with the $100 million, 25-building General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit, hailed by Architectural Forum as "an architectural feat which may be unique in our time." A model of modern architecture, the G.M. center has glistening expanses of aluminum, greenish glass and grey porcelain façades, interchangeable office paneling and windows "zippered in" with neoprene gaskets...
...says. "He puts clamps on the problem." But Saarinen is no blind follower of any style. "When you do a job like this," he says of the G.M. Center, "your mind goes back to Versailles, the Tivoli Gardens, San Marco, the way Italians used pavements. And you think, 'Boy! Let's do that!'" Saarinen admits he has to ask himself: "Is that creating a new architecture?" And he replies: "Isn't it just bringing back things that have been lost to architecture? We must still create, but we would like to bring back some...
...handed out scores of Scriptures to youth groups he organized. One day in 1934 a mother asked him to look up her son, a sailor on a ship off Long Beach. Sitting in his old car by the waterfront, Trotman quoted the Bible to the boy until a policeman grew suspicious. A few minutes later, Trotman had talked the cop into joining him and the sailor in a session of prayer. The sailor said: "I'd give my right arm if I could do what you just did." Dawson challenged...
...spared plenty. He was a longtime trustee of Columbia University and La fayette College, campaigned hard for the United Negro College Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, the Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, gave generously to religious groups. One 1955 gift: $1,000,000 to the Genesee (N.Y.) Conference of the Methodist Church...
...Sinclair Lewis. He thought Henry James "was an idiot, and a Boston idiot to boot, than which there is nothing lower in the world, eh?" F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was "poor stuff." Said Mencken of Hemingway: "The man can't write. Just a bad boy, who's probably afraid of the dark." As for Faulkner, "there is no more sense in him than in the wop boob, Dante . . . the man hasn't the slightest idea of sentence structure or paragraphing." Angoff drops an amusing footnote to the famed "Hatrack" episode in which Mencken...