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...choices for the Seven Wonders of American Architecture [TIME, Sept. 29] is indeed provocative. I used to eat dinner at Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House ("the Battleship") every night during the summer of 1948, and often wondered whether I was at the University of Chicago or at sea. That was during the Hutchins-Adler Great Books era, and it subsequently appeared that being at the University of Chicago then, or at sea, was more or less one and the same thing. The architectural magnificence of the Robie House still escapes me. Like Quasimodo, it is imposing but grotesque...
...itself, the jet transport age would not do much to solve the world's problems (military jets are already old hat), except, possibly, to put Secretary of State John Foster Dulles more places more often. But its advent was another milestone in the oldest and most adventurous struggle of all: man's indefatigable drive to conquer his own environment...
Unlike the British in India, the Frenchmen of Algeria are far more than just a governing caste. Though they are often all loosely called colons, only 22,000 of them are landowners, and of these only a few score are genuinely wealthy. The rest of Algeria's Europeans are policemen, office workers, garage proprietors, locomotive drivers, skilled laborers and tradesmen who call themselves French but call Algeria home. To their talent and initiative, the land owes such economic strength as it possesses...
This year NSA passed one hundred resolutions, purporting to be the voice of American students. They gave an average of three to five minutes debate on each resolution, often failed to explain them and laughed down opposition to the resolution on the floor. No advance notice was given of the agenda, and yet delegates were expected to be experts on international affairs, military training, federal aid to education, segregation...
Although frequent use of capitals of express The Big Ideas is annoying and the prose often cumbersome, the primary fault of the book is its over-simplification. To present the character of Bogard, Frede resorts to a modern-day equivalent of good and bad angels. Bogard's thoughts are conveyed through two of his mental creations named Slide Rule and The Third Person. Calculation and commitment contend for the sould of the present generation...