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...million Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel, which opened last week, is the latest extravaganza in the career of John C. Portman Jr. Restless, driving, so egotistical that he often antagonizes his backers, Portman, 51, is an architect who not only has done more to change hoteldom than anyone since Conrad Hilton, but also is the first major talent in his profession to own as well as design buildings. His trademark is the architecture of entertainment in cities. "I have been accused of doing up a sophisticated Disneyland for adults," he says. "I plead guilty...
...chic clubs...") narrowed his literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...
...Waste Land,"...There was no "Ulysses," no "Mauberly," no "Cantos," no Kafka, no Proust, no Waugh, no Auden, no Huxley, no Cummings, no "Women in Love" or "Lady Chatterly's Lover." There was no Valley of Ashes in "The Great Gatsby." One read Hardy and Kipling and Conrad and frequented worlds of traditional moral action delineated in traditional moral language...
Those who read Conrad and Kipling found the war wholly inexplicable. For Henry James, the day after England entered the war, any notion of the world "gradually bettering" seemed lost: "to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really [leading up to] and meaning is too tragic for anywords." Yet for those who saw the trenches extending 2200 miles from the coast in Belgium to Switzerland, for those who saw 60,000 British casualties at Ypres in April, 1915, and another 60,000 British casualties at Loos five months later, and then...
Equipment repairs during the December 21 snow emergency pushed expenditures $125,000 above the $175,000 budget, and Sunday's storm will cost another $125,000, according to Conrad Fagone, commissioner of the Cambridge Public Works Department...