Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome show, but their younger colleagues and epigoni contribute a number of exciting works themselves. Perhaps the most well-known of the new buildings, Edward Stone's vibrant New Delhi Embassy, deserves top honors for its succinct and artistic suggestion of the filigree of India's most well-known monument, the Taj Mahal. A surprise in this exhibition is provided by the exciting and imaginative project of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for the Banque Lambert in Brussels. So ingenious is its form of detail and so striking its balancing of the major areas that one feels sure that it will...
Author Humes does his work in flashbacks, not the smooth ones of a Marquand, but brusque revelations carved out like sections of a monument to doom. Unfortunately, he also chooses to interpolate interior monologues, which prove only that he has not read James Joyce well enough. But these form a minor irritant compared to the book's merits -clean writing, crisp description, and a surprisingly accurate sense of the bitter relationships, mostly unspoken, between the enlisted Negroes and their commander. Author Humes is no optimist. Every page of Men Die implies an underlying sense of doom for mankind...
...Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...
...expected to take at least three years. When it is finished, the site will be filled, graded and, if possible, reforested. Eventually some of it may become a park-a fitting monument to the city fathers who dumped combustible rubbish against a seam of coal...
...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer observed July 20 by laying a wreath at a monument to the victims of the Nazis. In West Berlin, officers of the new Bundeswehr, who had to wear civilian clothes because of the city's quadripartite occupation status, gathered to honor July 20 at the old headquarters of the Wehrmacht on what is now, in memory of the day, called Stauffenbergstrasse. To the Communist East Berlin Neues Deutschland, this was "dirty-dog hypocrisy." Snapped West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt "Over there, they have good reason to fear a 'rebellion of conscience...