Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyday sense, always practical." His constructed works have been few in number: a street of modern houses in Paris; an apartment house in Geneva; Salvation Army headquarters in Paris; a number of country houses for rich esthetes in Switzerland, Holland, France, all in the stark, boxlike manner that critics like to call the International Style...
Realizing that the architecture he preaches represents a new manner of living as well as a problem in glass, concrete and steel, Architect Le Corbusier has turned more & more from the problem of the individual house to the intricate business of town planning. In La Ville Radieuse ("The Radiant City''), his newest book, published last September in Boulogne, he tries to express his idea of the city of the future in some 400 confused pages jammed with maps, plans, cartoons, old engravings, photographs. Slower minds could make little of it beyond the fact that...
Sandy Valley by Clyde Singer, a landscape in the manner of John Steuart Curry in which an incredibly red sun was setting behind an equally red farmhouse while a railway train let out a plume of smoke in the middle distance. It won the $500 Norman Wait Harris Medal. Gallery visitors greeted with relief that ably-painted veteran of a dozen U. S. art shows, Eugene Speicher's portrait of a mustached blacksmith, Red Moore (TIME, April...
...queer premonition drew the ladder after him. The old woman had left a fire to welcome the fellow; the candies had burned their life away. Things were different tonight; as if some ominous cloud had set about the Tower. The moon shone into the chamber in a doubtful, suspicious manner. All kinds of weird shapes quivered on the wall. And now there struck a deep-booming, yawning bell. Twelve o'clock...
Last week able William Edward Levis, head of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., took over Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co. Libbey makes tumblers, glasses, finger-bowls, pitchers, all manner of glass tableware, is not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford which makes plate glass. With the glass business, like the bottle business, boomed by Repeal, Libbey should earn about $500,000 in 1935. Mr. Levis paid for the Libbey company with 47,200 shares of Owens-Illinois stock which closed last week at 106 and so constituted a $5,000,000 consideration. Libbey will operate as an Owens-Illinois division with...