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First comes fury (Look Back in Anger) and then mordant self-pity (In admissible Evidence). If these assaults on man's conscience do not take effect, what is left but to call it quits? That is not precisely what Playwright John Osborne has done in his new London play...
Nonskiers cannot comprehend why otherwise rational people rise at dawn in order to buy a $10 ticket for the privilege of shivering in a slow-moving lift line to ascend slowly a hill that they will quickly slide down. Or to careen down a narrow, bumpy trail in a blinding...
The point of transition from the pre-eminence of sincerity to that of authenticity is far from clear; well into the twentieth century, as unlikely a thinker as Herbert Marcuse is found guilty of pleading a return to sincerity. But the mainstream is undeniably is another direction, and for Trilling...
Joost said that former Fine Arts chairman, Ivan R. Galantic, was at the root of her problems. "He's emotionally incapable of relating to women on a rational level," she said.
Meantime Walter Gropius had moved to the U.S. to head Harvard University's design school. In 1937 he asked Breuer to teach and practice with him in Cambridge, Mass. He was adored by his students, fine architects including I.M. Pei, John Johansen, Paul Rudolph, Ulrich Franzen. "Gropius was the...