Word: rectilinear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers of Wheel of Fortune might find it hard to imagine how such a strictly non-political novel could be considered out of line, even in such a rectilinear country as Duceland. But, though the book was not suppressed, the Italian press gave it not a single mention. Reason: The ruler of Rome's hive does not approve of such Roman drones as Moravia writes about, prefers to ignore their existence...
...quarter-century ago, Chicago and the Midwest were startled by the appearance, here and there amid the contemporary melange of Victorian residences, of an occasional long, low rectilinear structure with severe walls of stone or stucco, and wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity...