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...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...
...about Yankee technology, were distilled and elaborated in Europe, where they contributed to a messianic style. It came back across the Atlantic in the '30s and '40s, and then was academized. Without doubt, the reign of the curtain wall and the spread of a debased sort of rubber-stamp corporate modernism were helped by the factors Wolfe lists: fashion, snobbery, herd instinct and the colonial cringe. Mainly, the glass box won because it was cheap to build. But it just might be that the American patrons of mainstream modernism were not as dumb or masochistic about their glass...
...naturally challenged the legality of Trudeau's proposal to proceed unilaterally, and the case naturally fell into the laps of a squirming Supreme Court. In the meantime, Trudeau's opponents--the federal Conservative party and the provincial premiers--started writing letters to British MPs, asking that they refuse to rubber stamp Trudeau's package. Even before the court announced its decision, British members were crossing the Atlantic, coming to Canada on fact-finding missions. Presumably, Britain's honorable members have had trouble enough tending to their own garden recently without these gratuitous vacations...
...insufficient business," as three of nine were last year, the Faculty usually echoes the council's decisions of weeks earlier. One council member likes to call the Faculty "disposative, not consultative." Any way you translate that, it means the Faculty, too large to hold orderly discussions, ends up a rubber stamp for the council...
...question of which son would run to fill the vacancy. "It was a tossup," Walter says, but Edward J. Sullivan had a job that allowed for easier campaigning, and so he made the bid. And, of course, he won. A year later, in January of 1950, the Hood Rubber Co. of Watertown laid off Walter. "And from that day forward I started campaigning for myself," he declares...