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...novel speaks of drinkingness (more pleasurable than drunkenness). One Texas preacher is currently using everything from thereness and scatteredness to gatheredness-which suggests that he owes a debt to togetherness, used in the 1920s by Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead long before Madison Avenue took it over. Another early ness-builder was Mr. Justice Holmes, who defended his decisions by saying: "I do accept a rough equation between isness and oughtness." Teacher Foote has spotted the malpractice as far back as a rare 16th century book that describes Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides as having cavern-nesse. So perhaps...
Died. Sir Frederick Handley Page. 76, pioneer builder of bombers, founder and chairman of Britain's first-and its last un-nationalized-aircraft corporation, Handley Page Ltd.. who designed multiengined R.A.F. warplanes from World War I's wood-and-linen type 0/400 to today's 600-m.p.h. Victor jet bomber, in peacetime invented the slotted wing, which blunderproofs planes against low-speed stalls; in London...
...Lousy Timing." On the wisdom of his timing, Blough found few defenders. Said Builder Del Webb: "I wouldn't think the steel industry used good judgment in raising prices immediately after a labor settlement. But it would have had to come sooner or later." More bluntly, Howard A. Williams, purchasing director of Cleveland's Eaton Manufacturing Co. (auto and aircraft parts) declared: "What's bad about the increase was the lousy timing...
Nervi's ferro-cement dome ceilings, strengthened by corrogated beams are today among his most familiar works. Conceived an executed as technical problems, these domed ceilings nevertheless attain a soaring beauty not foreseen in by the builder--entirely dependent on structural design yet not included...
...What is beauty?" Nervi asks. "I am a builder. I am no artist. People tell me some of my designs are beautiful, and I am glad. But I don't aim at beauty." Nervi maintains that the different stresses which different situations place on the physical properties of reinforced concrete determine its basic form, leaving the architect a "margin of freedom" to decorate but preventing the aesthetic from ever being a fundamental architectural aim. Although structure in its immediate situation has always been his primary concern, in many of his constructions he himself demonstrates the beauty which...