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...broad, floating base of stone, the hotel was one of the few buildings to survive Tokyo's great earthquake of 1923, is still in business as Tokyo's No. i hotel. ¶ A drawing and pictures of "Falling-water," the reinforced concrete house Wright cantilevered over a brook at Bear...
Brittain had shown the promise right in Beaverbrook's own backyard. At 25, after making a name as a reporter and editor, he became assistant editor of Beaver-brook's Sunday Express, three years later was named editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch. In 1934 Brittain started out on his own. borrowed $1,600 to buy a weekly, Recorder, which had a circulation of only 700. He built it into a moneymaker, boosted its circulation to 22,500 and put together a chain of eleven other weeklies and trade papers...
Director Peter brook's color camera prowls quietly through each scene emphasizing details that bring realism to the film. Concentrating on facial expressions, his close-ups and angle shots are typical of his bet work...
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...trouble with the pedagogues, Woodring says, is that they started out as reformers and ended up as dogmatists. They now not only refuse to listen to their critics, they also brook no disagreement among themselves. "An examination of the professional journals...quickly reveals that...any real disagreement on fundamental issues is never tolerated...A teacher may read dozens of such journals without finding a single article which questions the validity of pragmatic principles." As a result, says Woodring, today's teachers seldom realize what a distorted set of principles they hold. Items...