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...line continued. But after World War II, Aalto abandoned crisp functionalism-"inhuman dandy-purism," he called it. His freestanding works became more complicated and took on steadily more mysterious, evocative forms (TIME, Aug. 25). His grand public structures-most notably Finlandia House, Helsinki's conference and concert center-stir an exhilarating sense of place and occasion. Aalto's town halls, designed for Seinäjoki, Säynätsalo and other small Finnish cities, use light and space to create a kind of civic intimacy. No concept was too large for his attention (he laid out whole...
...seem to fear, then we will be reduced to a role versus the Soviets and Chinese of a "helpless, pitiful giant." Nixon, the author of that phase, and the nation's best pro football fan, would know better than anyone that we need a political Vince Lombardi to alternately stir up our people's prejudices and whip us for our cowardice...
...stood between Jimmy Carter and the nomination, and Humphrey agreed. Often they had vested interests of their own, but for the nation's good, they warned him. Carter needed to be challenged: he was too untested, too unknown. Again, Humphrey agreed. The arguments for getting in started to stir his blood. The old fever, the old wanting to be President was still very much there...
...music, Richard Rodgers is incapable of writing an uningratiating tune. But several of the numbers seem more suited to rocking a cradle than stir ring a realm, and Sheldon Harnick's lyrics confuse spareness with childishness...
...Henry than to Henry James. As a revival it must compete, too, with the memory of earlier incarnations, the 1947 play with Basil Rathbone and an oft-replayed movie starring Ralph Richardson as the coruscating father. The torment inflicted upon the daughter by the father can still stir old-fashioned pity, even in the age of women's lib, and the claustrophobic gentility of this 1850s New York home adds a note of melodrama...