Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words were in a new collection of Wright's essays (The Future of Architecture; Horizon Press; $7.50), which express a philosophy of building as original as it is vital. Wright early rejected the traditional concept that architecture is mainly a matter of blocks and boxes. His own buildings derive from the organic constructions of nature. Wright once designed an extraordinarily efficient column after studying the structure of morning glories, and his skyscraper now going up in Bartlesville, Okla. is built on the principle of a tree. "The only safe precedent," Wright likes to say, "is principle...
...however, they evince a curious disquietude at the series of Boston Post articles by John Fox on the same subject using a great deal more lineage than would be required for my rejected "defense" in order to express their concern. And they becloud the issue by dragging in phrases like "McCarthyism," "The Chicago Tribune of the East Coast," "Kremlin Newspapers in Hub Library," "The Harvard Study of Russia. . ." and name like McCarran, Hoyt, McCormick, Conant and others. Further, they talk all around the subject without attempting in any way, shape or manner to answer Mr. Fox's articles...
...automobile has been accused of changing the personalities of drivers, and always for the worse. Not so, said Canty -the personality defects come first, and the auto merely affords the driver an opportunity to express hatreds which exist even when he is at home and on his good behavior...
...stay at Columbia College in Eugene. Ore. lasted only three months and no records survived, but Joaquin always said that he was valedictorian of his class. He soon added horse-stealing, jail-breaking, and pony express riding to his postgraduate skills. Already writing doggerel himself, he was bowled over by the newspaper poems of one Minnie Myrtle, "Sweet Singer of the Coquille." Joaquin met, wooed and won Minnie in three days...
...Restaurateur Mike Romanoff ships his silk and pongee shirts air express to Sulka's in Manhattan for proper laundering...