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Thus, in 1853, English Critic John Ruskin lectured an Edinburgh audience. The popular concept that the roof is the very essence of architecture became so deeply ingrained that Louis Sullivan, Chicago's famed skyscraper builder, felt it necessary to crown his tall buildings with huge, floriated lids. Frank Lloyd Wright made the roof the dominating motif of his houses. But as modern architects worked away at the box-on-stilts ideal, the roof all but disappeared from view...
...missionary principal at his school asked him to give up politics five years ago, Nyerere, a devoted Roman Catholic, followed his conscience and resigned his teaching job instead, taking over fulltime leadership of his young TANU Party in the drive for African rule. At first a fiery radical, Edinburgh University-trained Nyerere (pronounced Nyuh-ray-ree) grew more moderate when the British authorities agreed to a multiracial government. "Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way," he preached from his modest bungalow in Dar es Salaam. But his goal never changed: "The African must and will rule...
...Journey to the Center of the Earth (20th Century-Fox). The year is 1880. Professor Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason) of the University of Edinburgh watches the sun rise over an extinct volcano in Iceland. What a splendid day for an outing! Whereupon the professor brushes a speck of dust from his tweeds, adjusts his rucksack and deerstalker, stamps his stout shoes, grasps his walking stick and casually strolls off-to the center of the earth. Fortunately, he is followed by a Hollywood producer (Charles Brackett) with wit enough to smile at some of the most preposterous pseudo-scientific poppycock ever...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. Bozzy gives a spirited account of his early, tumultuous years as husband and Edinburgh attorney. Volume VII of the Yale series...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. The seventh volume in the delightful Yale University series takes Bozzy through his sometimes tumultuous first years as a husband and Edinburgh attorney...