Word: diabolicalness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's Architect Le Corbusier, the prophet of vertical living who thinks that even Manhattan skyscrapers are too small, came in for some criticism last week in London's Economist. His familiar prescription for overflow populations from ever-growing cities is the super apartment house, a kind of...
On the eve of her Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a...
Insidious Flower. Bishop Berggrav first investigates the nature of the enemy-the diabolic state "which seeks to dominate the entire life of its citizens (perchance under the guise of democratic forms)." He quickly dismisses as superficial the view that modern dictatorship is a historical episode which has sprung up quickly...
William Tregoe is good in the routine part of Harcourt, and Robert Fletcher likewise good as Horner, who has little to recommend himself as a character beyond the diabolic ingenuity of his scheme.