Word: hadrian
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Servant & Served Spaces. Kahn admits that he is inspired by such past piles as the Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa, the walled town of Carcassonne, the turreted cathedral of Albi. What keeps Kahn modern are his use of materials, his trusses and cantilevers of reinforced concrete. What makes his work exciting is that he has modernized old conventions and brought back to architecture a sense of romance and daring...
...motorcade reached the city limits, De Gaulle jumped to his feet, waved theatrically to the Athenians gathered under the pepper trees. At Hadrian's Arch, near the Temple of Olympian Zeus, he said with feeling: "No Frenchman, especially myself, could fail to be moved by this city, nor forget what has been accomplished here for liberty in 3,000 years." Then he plunged nearsightedly into the curbside crowd to shake hands-a procedure that gives his security guards perpetual jitters...
...Terrain. Deiss chooses to tell his story from his subject's point of view, in a first-person chronicle supposedly set down by Frederick at the end of his life, the device used so well by Marguerite Yourcenar in Hadrian's Memoirs. To some extent the method sacrifices dramatic force-violence recollected in relative tranquillity is only the shadow of violence. But although Frederick, as warrior and sensualist, was at the center of many dramas, his life was lived in the far and lonely terrain of his own mind...
...Roman helmet and a good deal of her heft, the pert new Britannia has a becoming shoulder-length hairdo to replace the sausage curls she has worn since Victorian times, even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than the Emperor Hadrian. A spokesman for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street groped for the right words to express the bank's official comment, came up with, "She's a glamour puss. We are really with...
...partition, the Wall does, after all, subtly keep alive Germans' hopes of reunification. That, admittedly, is a remote prospect-but. say optimists, "What goes up must come down." There are, of course, the fatalists who suggest that Ulbricht's Wall will probably last as long as Hadrian's (1,835 years and going strong)-if only because, as one old Bonn hand put it last week, ''No democratic government could ever ask its people to try and tear that thing down...