Word: enfante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pauv' enfant...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week. The occasion was a Boston Symphony concert. The heroes: Russian Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev who appeared also as pianist. No stranger in U. S. music halls is Composer Prokofiev. He used to be railed at as the enfant terrible among moderns, a name belied by his pleasant. Pucklike presence. But since others have outdone him in the making of queer, dissonant patterns, the public has found him less disturbing, more to be accepted. Prokofiev too has changed in the past ten years. Now 38, leading an unheckled life...
...cool dreams in marble, on the hills of Attica and Sicily. When Francis I of France wanted palaces designed, he summoned Leonardo da Vinci. George Washington, after the fever of a war, set out to build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later infest. Just so, last week, the Supreme Economic Council of Soviet Russia, represented by Amtorg Trading Corp. in Manhattan, signed contracts to retain, the Detroit architectural firm of Albert Kahn, Inc., as consulting architects...
...Program. Except insofar as they indicate the architectural trend of a new age, little do the duties of Albert Kahn, Inc., resemble those of Pierre L'Enfant and the Augustan Greeks. Under Architect Kahn's supervision, plans will be prepared by some 1,500 Soviet architects and engineers for four motor car, truck and cycle factories; nine plants for tractors and farm implements; then for six asbestos, corundum, and graphite factories; two locomotive works; 15 machine tool, cash register, and typewriter factories; 24 cement factories; 126 sawmills; 106 woodworking plants; 27 glass factories; 35 spinning mills; 15 woolen...