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...Scrabble here is not a game at all," says Patrice Jeanneret, the Swiss president of the Fédération Internationale de Scrabble Francophone, "it's a major sport." Scrabble sets can be purchased on virtually every street corner, and mastering the game is much encouraged in the country's French language schools. The national Scrabble federation enjoys the active support of the government. But it is the palpable passion of the Senegalese for the game that surprises many foreigners. Don't tell a Senegalese host that you consider Scrabble a pastime for a relaxed evening of socializing; they...
...born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887. When he was 29, he went to Paris, where he soon after adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Le Corbusier, as his pseudonym. Jeanneret had been a small-town architect; Le Corbusier was a visionary. He believed that architecture had lost its way. Art Nouveau, all curves and sinuous decorations, had burned itself out in a brilliant burst of exuberance; the seductive Art Deco style promised to do the same. The Arts and Crafts movement had adherents all over Europe, but as the name implies, it was hardly representative of an industrial...
Army: Garinger 6:13 0-0 21: Hanson 4-8 0-0 8: Jeanneret 2-3 0-0 4: Khoun 1-1 0-0 2: List 1-2 1-2 4: Russell 10-22 6-8 26. Scapsella 1-7 0-0 1. Totals...
...show repeatedly indicates, artists have contributed little to the design of the automobile itself. Architects, though, have occasionally gone to the drawing board to produce their visions of a well-designed vehicle; in 1928 Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret proposed a clever small car that was never produced. In the Annan's Parking '30s Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius designed various solid-looking bodies for Adler luxury convertibles. American artists instead used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal...
Nonetheless, the vast majority of the center's visitors seem to like it. Chief among them is Corbu's brother, Composer Albert Jeanneret, 83. Says he: "This is one of Corbu's masterworks, a perfect assembly of volumes and obliques. This house is a part of Corbusier and therefore inimitable...