Word: designs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main theme ... is 'the world's disorder and God's design.' May I begin by asking whether we must not deal with this theme, as a whole and in all its aspects, in reverse order? It is written, we should first seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness, so that all we need in relation to the world's disorder may be added unto us. Must we not take this order of topics seriously...
...terms of rents and profits and prestige but in terms of human decency, the greater part of New York consists, in Patrick Geddes' words, of slums, semi-slums, and super-slums . . . They praise Stuyvesant Town only because they do not know how much is missing from its design...
Around London's Fleet Street last week went a story of how the Soviet government wished to commemorate Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They opened a competition for Soviet sculptors to submit designs for a memorial. Most efforts depicted the com poser seated at a piano or working on a score. The winning design: a twelve-foot-high bronze figure of Stalin, listening - to the music of Tchaikovsky...
...character of Ulysses, played by Jerry Kilty, is more ambiguous. His chief function is pulling the decadent Greeks back together and rousing Achilles from his lethargy. But this is not all--he always seems to have a deeper design. Although Thersites later calls him a "dog-fox," the addition of this slyness is only dramatically confusing. Otherwise, Kilty fulfilled the requirements for the predominant, dynamic, and unifying force...
...shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades on any Main Street...