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Criticism centers on the soaring roofs, which conceal the acoustical ceilings. The late Frank Lloyd Wright saw the roofs as so many "circus tents." Critic Lewis Mumford assailed the silhouette as serving "no other purpose than that of demonstrating the esthetic audacity of the designer." Utzon claims that the sails are a necessary departure from functionalism: "One could not have a flat roof filled with ventilation pipes." "I have made a sculpture," he says. "People will sail around it-so they will see it as a round thing, not as a house in a street...
America's foreign policy-makers have an essentially fascist outlook, Lewis Mumford said last night...
...idea of total destruction, Mumford said won acceptance well before the first atomic bomb was dropped. This came with "strategic bombing," which he said was a Fascist invention...
...Mumford concluded by telling the audience that packed the Leverett House Old Library that America should get out of Vietnam and apologize to the world and try to repair some of the damage it has done there...
...Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, has refused to teach at the University of Texas because of the university's demand that he sign on oath disclaiming membership in the Communist Party and other subversive organizations...