Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIS'S ANALYSIS of fifties liberalism and its culmination in the secular theology of Harvey Cox and the pragmatic style of John F. Kennedy is right on the mark even as it is somewhat more caustic than either deserves. In The Secular City, Cox carried the theology of Reinhold Niehbur...
Forsyth has enormous trouble getting all this together and rumbling down the runway fast enough for takeoff. But finally, on page 189, the reporter's search turns into a good, old-fashioned chase, with the bad SS guys hop-skipping along after him trying to head him off or...
YET HOWEVER FASCINATING Las Vegas'n architecture, and even its parking lots, may be in an environment of enormous spaces and high speeds, architectural form is not enough to attract attention. Signs in Las Vegas compensate for what the buildings may lack in commercial persuasion. And Venturi takes great pains...
Because of this attitude of acceptance--indeed glorification--of the existing system to strip development as a perfectly legitimate middle-class aesthetic, critics have dubbed Venturi the "Nixonite" of architecture. Yet however attractive he might make the strip appear in a book whose layout is so elaborate that the price...
EVERYONE KNEW that Johnson, a man of enormous talent and capability, felt out of place among the Ivy League Acheson-types. Insecure, he demanded enthusiastic support and judged all opinions by the "loyalty" or "disloyalty" of their proponents.