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...when the building boom started after the war, Gropius, Le Corbusier and epigones Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Phillip Johnson dominated the profession. So Americans yielded to the wishes of their architectural betters. We had just created the American century, transformed the post-war world into an American plaything, our private domain...
...unabashed layman with a superficial familiarity with much of the work; his analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright misses much of the old man's influence, and his indictment of Louis Kahn rings a bit hollow. Furthermore, he misses the point of the renewed interest in classicism, exemplified by Phillip Johnson's plans for the still-incomplete AT&T building in New York City. Wolfe views the neo-classicism merely as Gropius in Roman ropes, when it may reflect more deeply the wide dissatisfaction with the glass...
Among the playwrights who have begun their careers at the Agassiz are Phillip Barry and Eugene O'Neill, as well as novelist Thomas Wolfe...
...traded at a 50-year low of 80.3? against the U.S. dollar as recently as a month ago. But that does not seem to deter some savers who say that the risk of a currency decline is outweighed by the high interest rates they receive. Says Detroit Advertising Salesman Phillip Marien, who has a Canadian passbook account: "I don't worry too much about a currency devaluation. You can take money out at any time without a penalty...
ROLL CALL, 7:07 a.m. The Hill Street precinct comes to disorder. Detectives, patrolmen and patrolwomen, officers and desk jockeys shuffle through the squad room, find seats, swallow some coffee and try to ignore the day ahead. Sergeant Phillip Freemason Esterhaus (Michael Conrad), a mountain of meat and gristle with a smile that could crack ice, is briefing his charges on the new day's agenda. "I'd like to interject a personal observation," he announces. "It seems that we've reached a new low, graffiti-wise, in both the men's and women...