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...Secretariat building in Manhattan has caused more controversy than any other skyscraper in Manhattan's jagged skyline. Distinguished architects like Richard Neutra have hailed it as a great architectural achievement. Other people have referred to it scornfully as "a sandwich on edge." Last week Author-Critic Lewis Mumford, writing in The New Yorker, knocked it flat-on paper...
...Wrote Mumford: "In this building, the movement that took shape in the mind of Le Corbusier in the early 1920s-and that sought to identify the vast and varied contents of modern architecture with its own arid mannerism-has reached a climax of formal purity and functional inadequacy. Whereas modern architecture began with the true precept that form follows function . . . this new office building is based on the theory that . . . function should be sacrificed to form...
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...Howard Mumford Jones, Professor of English, said last night that "his death deprives Harvard of one of those great figures which make the institution an international university. His wide command of the literatures of Europe was blended with a real knowledge of American culture. Leaving Germany for conscience's sake, he dedicated his life to the best American university ideals...
Last fall Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, refused a summer teaching job at California because he disapproved of the school's oath...