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...first Charles Eliot Norton lecture, the Italian architect had argued that the best buildings of every age employ the structural techniques of that age in the simplest, most direct and most sincere way possible. Last night, in the second lecture of four, he demonstrated the validity of this principle in contemporary, reinforced concrete construction...
...necessarily a soap opera. The single room is convenient even more than it is conventional, permitting both realism and synopsis. The playwright has the prerogative of using concentrated situations, and shouldn't be criticized for fully exploiting what is to begin with a limited form. In the simplest terms, Miss Hellman sticks to one room here because she wants to save time...
...obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner to another in a splendid gallery of sketches spanning sev eral decades, the novel comes down to the simplest of statements of simple faith. "I think my belief in God personal ly supports me.'' says Father-Preacher Donner, putting his lifetime into a sentence, ''and that His presence and angels go with me. gives me grace to do what I'm called...
...narrative is only the simplest ingredient of Jones's work. While Private Ball waits nervously in the trenches, Author Jones goes off on precarious patrols into the no man's land of the language until, at last, he falls victim to a sort of syntactical battle fatigue and returns to Private Ball-who waits...
...than Titan I or Atlas, has greater thrust (430,000 Ibs. v. the Atlas' 360,000 Ibs.) and has far fewer gadgets that can go wrong. Says Aerojet-General's A. L. Feldman, technical program manager: "We got rid of all the garbage. Titan II is the simplest, most elegant and most advanced missile we've got today...