Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But in the city he marked for destruction, Frank Lloyd Wright has built a final monument to his own idiosyncratic genius. It could be criticized and quipped about, but it could not be ignored. Just before he died, Wright predicted it could survive even an atomic bomb: "It would just...
The 56-page pamphlet is the work of a five-man committee appointed by the Archbishop in March 1958 under the chairmanship of J. T. (for John Traill) Christie, principal of Oxford's Jesus College. The committee members (a lawyer, a psychiatrist, a philosopher and a theologian) investigated the...
Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.).* A live TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, in which a seven-year-old English boy (Jacques Hirschler) faces the destruction of his private world when he discovers that his male baby sitter (Jack Hawkins...
At last all danger was past, though the fire itself smoldered softly through the duff on the forest floor. Remarkably, nobody was killed (a few fire fighters were injured), and the only severe damage for Deadwood came with the destruction of the two lumber plants, a lot of dry lawns...
The Western public philosophy is a. shambles. Ways believes, for two principal reasons. First, modern thought has lost the sense of whole truths in a passion for fragmentation and the claim of science to a custody of "the only valid paths to knowledge." Secondly, the nation's intellectuals have...