Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general manifesto, he announced: "I have lived in exile in 15 European countries in flight from the U. S. income-tax collectors. If Andorra refuses me, the only other European country I may visit is Liechtenstein. . . . I'm a real gangster, it's true, but I'm no criminal, and I want to remain what I have always been -honest. Europeans make a big mistake when they give honesty a meaning it never had. I've never kidnapped anybody...
...ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such as J. J. P. Oud and Mies van der Rohe he was regarded as a master spirit. In 1932 Wright published his Autobiography, a book which combined magnificent self-revelation with the most stimulating discussion of architecture ever heard...
...Lieber Meister" is what Frank Lloyd Wright has always called Sullivan since his death in 1924. The reverence is due. Louis Sullivan saw with violent clarity that in industrial Chicago the old styles of European architecture would not serve. Chicagoans to whom the noble pile of the Auditorium Building is part of the landscape and St. Louisans familiar with the ten-story Wainwright Building do not often pause for the solemn reflection that in 1889 and 1891 these were great architectural achievements-office buildings framed in structural steel. Louis Sullivan fathered the skyscraper. In 1899 in the Carson Pirie Scott...
...Film Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1936 with the object of showing to the University all the American and European films of interest since the beginning of the movie industry. At present it is headed by T. Edward Ross '38, and is sponsored by distinguished Faculty members, the Fogg Museum, and others...
...Boston during the years he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. His later studies were made in Berlin under the well-known Arthur Schwab. For many years, the pianistic team of "Pattison and Maier" was a familiar part of the concert season of nearly every large American, European and Oriental city...