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Honest and Earthy. Breuer himself was finding new solutions in the intimate, beautiful houses he was designing with Gropius around Boston. His inspiration, he told TIME Reporter Leah Gordon, was the simple American frame house. "I liked the fact that anyone could construct these houses simply by nailing boards together. They are earthy, honest and dignified, like Huckleberry Finn and Abraham Lincoln...
...same site the proposal calls for the Kennedy Library Corporation to construct "related facilities" which include 150 condominium apartments, a 1000-car garage public bus facilities and a plaza of shops and cafes...
...theory underlying two recent Nixon satires. I mile de Antonio's video production Milhouse and An Evening with Richard Nixon, a theater piece by Gore Vidal. These "comedies" do more than avoid disentangling the real Nixon from his popular caricature--the self-repressed, ambitious, and self-righteous liar. They construct a semi-comic figure entirely from Nixon's own words. In this sense, they are black comedy. Our laughter barely hides our disgust. It is the President of the United States, not an impersonator, who seems ludicrous. Our sense of his ineptitude only underscores our disbelief at his complete lack...
...chauvinists could hardly find a better champion. "A husband's kindnesses and attentions to his wife, along with his concern that she be well housed and well fed and sexually gratified, are," Miss Decter protests, hysterically misinterpreted, as if they were sinister "plans from which he means to construct a towering edifice to his own vanity...
...book Power to Dissolve (Belknap Press, Harvard; $15), Lawyer-Philosopher John T. Noonan Jr. indicates that the church's conception of what makes a marriage null has been fluid rather than fixed throughout the eight-century evolution of canon law. Writes Noonan: "Neither the theoretical construct of marriage nor the express texts of Scripture, neither the absence of precedent nor the desire for uniformity, has barred innovation in the past." Noonan speaks for many Catholics when he says that the evolution should, and will, continue...