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...Skeleton & Skin. He now works in Karlsruhe, but the difference from the old days is that the city furnishes him with a studio that is 60 ft. wide, go ft. long and three stories high. There he labors over the massive cartoons for his windows. In starting a commission, he cooperates closely with the architect, for his designs come out of the "possibilities and opportunities afforded by the architecture of a given project. Take, for instance, a modern church that has a square-patterned concrete backdrop behind the altar. People don't like to see jail-type grids...
...city from which journalists are always fading into the desert for weeks at a time, the prolonged absence of a correspondent seldom creates much of a stir. But last week Philby's disappearance had become the subject of international investigation and was rattling a twelve-year-old skeleton in the closet of Britain's Foreign Office. For Philby had been accused in the House of Commons of being the "third man" in the 1951 defection to Russia of Communist Spies Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess...
...Bare Skeleton. The building has the blunt honesty which decrees that, inside and out. the skeleton must be left bare. The surface of the reinforced concrete is intentionally left unfinished for texture, though it is not as rough and pitted as the façades of the buildings in the Indian provincial capital that Le Corbusier built at Chandigarh. Interior pipes are not only exposed but accented in green paint, like streaks of emerald against the white walls. Even the heating machinery stands exposed throughout the building, often recalling the boiler room of a ship...
Apparently, the Authority did not expect any wide-spread opposition to its plans from people living in Donnelly. Since the CRA had merely a skeleton professional staff of five only token measures toward "communication and participation" with Donnelly were possible; very little CRA money was budgeted for getting grassroots support among the residents. The opposition which erupted at the public hearings took the CRA by surprise. Members of the CRA were quick to blame the resistance on a few rabblerousers, but the opposition reflected the way most of the people in Donnelly felt about the CRA project...
...court room scene, in which demons appeared to her, fun; a dull, dull text quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative and attractive: the skeleton of a frame house served a surprising variety of functions during the four, tedious acts. It was sad to see such rich resources used for such a poor work...