Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated he was to receive no other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg...
...faddists who go in for cork & chicken wire interiors and applaud any edifice devoid of decoration as an example of "modern" architecture realize that "modern" architecture is more than a half century old, has possibly already entered its senescence. So old is "modernism," in fact, that its first master died eleven years ago. Last week his first biography was in the hands of students and a few others interested in the life and works of Louis Henry Sullivan. A professor of art and archeology at Dartmouth, Hugh Morrison, author of Louis Sullivan,* was naturally more interested in Sullivan...
...usually carried in his pocket. He was also a voluble theoretician, writing and speaking lyrically about the esthetics of building. He was constantly in search of the "law that will admit of no exceptions." But if he found it, he never set it down. A rapt listener to "the Master'' in the drafting room at night was a young cub named Frank Lloyd Wright. The panic of 1893 smashed the partnership of Adler & Sullivan. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither did as well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left...
...days, Frank Lloyd Wright, a Master of Modernism in his own right, called Sullivan "the Master." During Sullivan's last years the two would meet at the Cliff Dwellers Club in Chicago, talk bitterly about a world which neither found sufficiently appreciative. In 1924 Louis Henry Sullivan died in Chicago of heart disease...
...spectacle of private schoolmen reading the annual report of the headmaster of one of the least progressive schools and finding therein some of the most progressive views. Excerpts: ¶ "Not at present are we a great school in the sense of producing animated thinkers. . . . An amazing devotion marks the master of St. Paul's. . . . There is much drive, complete attention to duties, but not enough long-range planning of a scholarly sort. ... In scholarly capacity, one might rate our faculty at about 75%; in willing laboriousness at 90%; in successfully awakening independent intellectual interest in pupils...