Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DOROTHY M. JOHNSON...
This odd inquisition was set up by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 67, articulate firebrand of his church's liberal wing. Although the bishops talked with Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Christian Church), with Quaker-born (Presbyterian-attending) Richard Nixon, and Congregationalist (Methodist-attending) Hubert Humphrey, only Candidate Kennedy was quizzed on the church-and-state issues...
...show selects five as master form givers-the late Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto. Of the second generation, eight are singled out as leaders: Architects Marcel Breuer, Wallace K. Harrison, Philip C. Johnson, Richard J. Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Edward D. Stone, Engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Reviewing the past, assessing the present, and eying the future, the show leads to two major conclusions: 1) modern architecture has now clearly swept its early Beaux Arts enemies from the battlefield; 2) its architects, secure in their conquest...
...reaction is recent, caused in part by the miles of glass facades that have resulted from Mies's approach in the hands of less talented practitioners. Says Architect Philip Johnson, a onetime Mies collaborator: "Mies is such a genius. But I grow old and bored." Eero Saarinen quietly insists: "There does not have to be as much glass as Mies says." Says Edward D. Stone: "I am beginning to long for a feeling of permanence and monumentality." To all of this, Mies rumbles: "They say they are bored with my objectivity. Well, I am bored with their subjectivity...
This hit should have been no more than a double, but Boulris got the extra base by barreling into third baseman Tom Johnson, dislodging the ball from his glove and Johnson from the ball game, badly bruised. Boulris added the other run on a long homer through the right-centerfield gap in the eighth...