Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choices for the Seven Wonders of American Architecture [TIME, Sept. 29] is indeed provocative. I used to eat dinner at Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House ("the Battleship") every night during the summer of 1948, and often wondered whether I was at the University of Chicago or at sea. That was during the Hutchins-Adler Great Books era, and it subsequently appeared that being at the University of Chicago then, or at sea, was more or less one and the same thing. The architectural magnificence of the Robie House still escapes me. Like Quasimodo, it is imposing but grotesque...
...experts to pick the "Twelve Best Buildings in the Old Dominion since 1776." Then he sent pictures of these buildings and the Reynolds building to 13 top architectural deans, critics and architects for comment. Only one quarreled with his judgment that Reynolds was "the best since Jefferson." Thundered Frank Lloyd Wright, who concedes excellence to few other men: "If anything less Virginian could be imagined...
...Communist Party of India is successfully striving to give the image of itself as a constitutional party devoted to democratic processes," Dr. Lloyd Rudolph, instructor in Government, asserted last night in a speech at Phillips Brooks House...
Allies Help. Against this array Dulles fought a tireless battle. Though Chinese Communists had shown no interest in real negotiations at Warsaw, Dulles ordered U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam to talk with them again this week. In Manhattan he consulted with Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd,*who gave a diplomatic dinner for Russian U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko to urge Moscow pressure on Peking for peaceful settlement. Dulles met privately with Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who began making the Western case in U.N. for an effective cease-fire in the Formosa Strait...
...scenery, visit the museums and paint his head off. The results of his year in Italy-along with paintings by 59 other equally lucky artists-are on view this week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. They were picked by the museum's new director, Lloyd Goodrich, from among the 194 U.S. artists who have worked abroad on U.S. Government (Fulbright) scholarships, paid in local currencies from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad...