Word: planner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Luis Sort, leading modern architect and town planner of Spain, and Vice President of the Congres Internationaux de I'Architecture Moderne, will give a public lecture on "Can Our Cities Survive?", Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, in the lecture room on the first floor of Hunt Hall...
Elucidated Planner Neylan: "In spite of all the propaganda that can be churned up, a projected war will be one of sordid materialism devoid of any vestige of idealism. The objective is raw materials...
...Instead of promising Europe more guns with which to commit suicide, instead of making promises to join in the destruction of civilization, it would be far more intelligent for us to bring to them the means of salvation in the form of an absolute gift. . . ." Planner Neylan pictured the world shock which such a gesture would deliver, how all hands would drop their guns to scramble for the money...
Concluded Planner Neylan: "Any suggestion which does not fit in with the conventional jargon of diplomats and the sabre-rattling of those who will not be in the front line trenches will be considered bizarre and Utopian...
...selection of his concert lists, is forced to conform to the taste of the greater part of the public which supports him. In the case of an amateur or professional who performs for the benefit of a small, select audience, the problem is much simpler. Here the planner is under no obligation to a public and is perfectly free--within the limits set by the ability and numbers of the forces at hand--to choose works from the entire literature of music. When concerts of this type are given by musicians of high calibre, the result, though often a little...