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...which well describes Frank Lloyd Wright's ambition, and to a considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...
...recordings made by Olga Alvino?" (Ans.: They're on one disk, Victor 22313, which is no longer in circulation-so you have to prowl among the second-hand music shops.) . . . "What size is a French 42½ woman's shoe?'' (Ans.: 10½-you always subtract 3 2 from the French measure to get the American size.) . . . "What is a kangaroo's pouch lined with?" (When we checked the Bronx Zoo on that one we got our ears pinned back with "Skin, of course. What d'ya expect, nylon...
Other experts doubt that the postwar U.S. can produce $5 billion of the kinds of goods that Russia will require. Starting with U.S. wartime production (the only fairly firm figure in their calculation), they subtract their guess at the U.S. home demand, and subtract again their guess at the demand of other foreign customers. Result: they figure that the U.S. cannot export more than about $2 billion a year to Russia...
...clock back to M-Day, Sept. 1, 1939. Subtract from the world of that date the German and Japanese military forces. The answer to this calculation is peace. Break that peace into its components. The components are poverty in the midst of plenty...
Continuing in the financial vein, between February 1 and June 1, you will have earned $260 as Midshipmen, out of which you received $40 in cash. Subtract your Coop, laundry, and tailor bills, ship's service charges, and special withdrawals, and you will know how much to expect . . . maybe...