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The Author. "Today," wrote Graham Greene shortly before World War II, "our world seems particularly susceptible to brutality. There is a touch of nostalgia in the pleasure we take in gangster novels, in characters who have so agreeably simplified their emotions that they have begun living again at a level...
A onetime watch-engraver's apprentice, wry, wiry Le Corbusier (born Charles Edouard Jeanneret) had designed his first house by the time he was 18. When no one would listen to his new theories ("Men are so stupid, I'm glad I'm going to die"), he...
Vertical City. Last week, peering excitedly through thick, black-rimmed glasses at the models for his new building, he was still blasting away at everybody who didn't see things his way. "Garden cities are just a waste of space. Rows of houses, each one cutting off the view...
In Manhattan, a 48-inch water main broke during the morning rush hour, flooded blocks of the I.R.T. subway, trapped 9,000 passengers on 14 underground trains and tied up service for five hours. A black market in fuel oil developed overnight and was heartily damned and heartily patronized. Icicles...
Early on the fifth day, just after New York's skyscrapers caught the shine of a bright blue autumn morning, teletypes clacked in all police stations, ordering flags flown at half-mast. Signal gongs in all firehouses began beating out the 5-5-5-5 rhythm which heralds the...