Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even admirers who liked the thought of rubber floors on which children could not be hurt, or the fog gun for washing dishes, judged Mr. Fuller's proposal that the house be set up by being dropped from a Zeppelin a little visionary. Although it excited less discussion, critics were more impressed by his model bathroom exhibited in Manhattan four months ago, supplanting the present complex arrangement of pipes and drains with a unified, economical design as symmetrical as a piece of metal sculpture...
...Buckminster Fuller as an architect it has been said that he proceeds incoherently to logical conclusions. As a writer he follows the same procedure, leaping from-subject to subject faster than the eye can follow, but usually reaching conclusions notable for their mixture of blunt common sense and intuitive romanticism...
...after page 25 Mr. Murphy seldom appears and Buckminster Fuller jumps from housing to Einstein's theory (with an aside on the pernicious effect of lullabies), lambasts finance capital and advances a provocative comparison between primitive superstitions and the contemporary control of opinions. He believes that money will soon be based on the "energy dollar," that power will soon be transmitted by radio, that all basic industries in the U. S. will be socialized within a decade...
...readers are likely to value his book for its incidental information rather than for its arguments, to be as much irritated by Buckminster Fuller's exclamatory style as impressed by his occasional lightning insights. And by the time they have finished reading of all the stupidities, confusions and downright imbecilities that humanity tolerates, the moon is likely to seem just as far away as ever...
...Fuller word signifying "dynamic" plus "maximum service...