Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside-out House. To deliver that message, Vienna-born Neutra (pronounced Noytra) had come a long way from his first assignment in 1915: a tea house for the fortress of Trebinje, Herzegovina. Neutra came to the U.S. in 1923, sat at the feet of famed Skyscraper Architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modern, functional architecture and the teacher of Frank Lloyd Wright...
Neutra met Wright at Sullivan's funeral in 1924. Soon afterwards, with his wife and mother-in-law, he paid a long visit to Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin. Neutra named his eldest son for Wright, went forth to preach the gospel of modern architecture on lecture tours which took him from Rome to Tokyo. He long ago fashioned a style of his own, and made mass housing his main interest...
...Humorist Frank Sullivan, lists of the "Greatest Books" are apt to sound phony and pedantic. Few people, he believes, would read Bacon's Novum Organum, for example, unless they had the latest Agatha Christie concealed inside. Last week Sullivan thought he had discovered a more honest list: the books niched so far this year by students at upstate New York's Union College...
...Wrote Sullivan in PM: "A man who has swiped [these] books, and has read them, is on the road to . . .a liberal education." Some of the books Union men had borrowed for keeps: Andersen's and Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jane Eyre, The Decameron, Wuthering Heights, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Chesterfield's Letters, Art in the Armed Forces, Moll Flanders, Crime and Punishment, A Farewell to Arms, Isherwood's Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems...
...Sullivan didn't admire all the Union selections-he had never read The Anatomy of Melancholy, considers Chesterfield dull and pompous, and The Virginian "tame stuff for a student in the atomic age." Besides, nobody had stolen any Shakespeare or Dickens. His consoling afterthought: "Well, the academic year is only half over...