Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late Frank Lloyd Wright saw the roofs as so many "circus tents." Critic Lewis Mumford assailed the silhouette as serving "no other purpose than that of demonstrating the esthetic audacity of the designer." Utzon claims that the sails are a necessary departure from functionalism: "One could not have a flat roof filled with ventilation pipes." "I have made a sculpture," he says. "People will sail around it-so they will see it as a round thing, not as a house in a street...
...operational level. He avoids definitions, generalizations, sweeping conclusions and philosophies of education. At a vague abstraction his brows furrow, a slight smile forms at the corners of his mouth. "You've got to talk about concrete situations", he says brusquely. "I don't believe there's any one flat philosophy that can serve everyone best. I think people sought to be given options...
Kennedy has its virtues, but they are well hidden. It is, to begin with, not terribly well written. Sorensen simply isn't the narrator Schlesinger is; stories that are well-told in one book come out flat in the other. Parts of the Sorensen book, too, sound embarrassingly like Kennedy speeches...
...trouble with the Lowell House production of Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie is just that: the magic world of memory and illusion that Williams tried to create exists only in the glass figurines. The rest of the play, except for a moment or two, is flat, prosaic, and pretty unmagical...
Robert Mariotti, as Tom, fails to show the battle of his yearning for freedom with his affection for his family. His tone is too flat, too conversational, and the tension he should feel is not apparent. When he tries to be tender, he only whines; when he tries to be angry, he only shouts. The sharp insight he should have is muted and dull...