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...Welcome Pressure. Like every revolution, the Negro revolution is formless. It is, as ex-Slave Douglass said it must be, an oceanic tide of many waters. The voices of hatred are in the minority-so far. But they often drown out softer, equally determined and far more effective Negro voices...
Featherbedding is a business malaise in many parts of the world, but in Latin America it is a hallowed institution enjoyed by the participants, cheered by the masses and endorsed by the politicians. Now the feather beds are getting softer than ever...
...harsh, raw severity of Le Corbusier jars a world conditioned to softer, more comfortable art forms, but it also establishes a conspicuous point of evolution in modern architecture. Into the Visual Arts Center Le Corbusier has brought all the major tenets of this evolution...
...burst on the art world in the depressed '30s with a Manhattan exhibition of raw, shocking canvases (among them: American Justice, showing a half-naked, just-lynched prostitute against a background of quietly chatting Ku Klux Klansmen), over the years mellowed and developed a softer Japanese-like style in easel paintings, covers for TIME (travel, Christmas shopping), and in sweeping landscape murals, one of the best of which, a 40-ft. by 8-ft. scene of Boston Harbor, adorns the dining salon of the S.S. Independence; of a heart attack; in Morristown...
...Georgian Houses "softer more comfortable art forms?" If so, only because we are used to them. Indeed, they have pretty exteriors, but aren't their interiors by comparison harsh, raw, and severe? The outside is so completely different from the inside. There is unity neither of materials or design, compare with the Arts Center. There, glass and concrete serve to unify the inner and outer space...