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...obsequies were for French President Georges Pompidou-classicist, civil servant, financier and politician-who died last week at age 62 after a prolonged and painful bout with what is suspected to have been multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow). At week's end, nearly 70 of the world's leaders, including Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and the Duke of Edinburgh, flew to Paris to pay him final tribute. There, in the Gothic splendor of Notre Dame...
...such disciples as Charles Moore and Pop Architect Robert Venturi-became enormous. Kahn was primarily concerned with principles of order and light. His work featured the use of stark, geometric shapes and an emphasis on natural light and the moods created by it. He also incorporated such traditionally concealed "servant" elements as ducts, pipes and storage space into visible design. Slight and white-haired, with a poetic regard for his materials ("A brick is happy when it is an arch"), Kahn was best known for the Salk Institute complex in La Jolla, Calif., and for his recently completed Kimbell...
...catch up with the cost of living, spiraling at the rate of 15.6% annually; but his greatest scorn is reserved for the government. "There is no economic plan," he says acidly, "no consistent framework within which to operate. It would be possible to run the company like a civil servant, but that certainly is not what I want." Unless the government can find some way to alleviate the effects of the contract it has imposed, however, that is what may happen...
Lewis said he regards his job as that of a public servant. "Very seldom can you get the great majority of the American people to express themselves about the fundamental questions of their lives as they do in an election, and it is our duty to make that expression articulate," he said...
...film-as-film trip using films made from novels as entertaining forms of learning. All they have to do is skip the reading and use them as a kind of celluloids Monarch Notes. As for Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus refers to "the cracked looking glass of a servant" as a symbol for Irish art. It's also an appropriate symbol for Ulysses the movie--a broken reflection of an inimitable world...