Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Servant & Served Spaces. Kahn admits that he is inspired by such past piles as the Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa, the walled town of Carcassonne, the turreted cathedral of Albi. What keeps Kahn modern are his use of materials, his trusses and cantilevers of reinforced concrete. What makes his work exciting is that he has modernized old conventions and brought back to architecture a sense of romance and daring...
...letters. No one else, in the face of such resolute popular and critical discouragement for so many years, would persist with unsullied vocation so doggedly and prolifically in the lonely and exacting art of fiction. His unrequited passion for literature must be the most gallantly unfortunate affair since an emperor penguin fell in love with Admiral Byrd (and followed him around, hinting with gifts of egg-shaped stones that he would like to join the Navy...
...Louis Napoleon, son of Brother Louis, was the second and last of the Bonaparte emperors (L'Aiglon was proclaimed Emperor in 1815, but he never actually ruled). In Stacton's opinion, he was merely "a paper demagogue" who wrote lively pamphlets and had "the dignity of a toy lion." Carried into office on a flood tide of Bonapartism, he soon made it clear that his resemblance to Napoleon was merely nominal. He became a sort of Gallic Coolidge decorated with Continental charm, and he presided over an era of prosperous inanition that collapsed in the debacle...
Founded in 1551, Mexico's National University is one of the Western Hemisphere's oldest-and probably its most troublesome. It has been closed by strikes and riots more times than some of its students can count. Emperor Maximilian, in fact, abolished it entirely in 1865, and not until 1910 was it revived. Since then, while some students have gone on to become internationally recognized architects, physicians and teachers, others have majored in mayhem, cutting classes, tossing out professors and spouting left-wing propaganda...
LeRoi Jones, 31, is no relation to the Emperor Jones. But he would like to be. He noisily nurses plans for a fascist Black Nation in Harlem; he howls destruction on all his foes, chief among whom are the Rev. Martin Luther King, the American Negro middle class, and absolutely all white men everywhere. In his 1964 play, The Toilet, Jones gave painful promise of developing gifts as a writer. In this disjointed collection of essays, the promise is flatly withdrawn. Jones clings raptly to his privileged role as victim, and has settled for a career as blackwash expert...