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Moreover, at MOMA one does not see any work of Mies' legion of followers, the modern architects who have remade and ravaged downtowns from Los Angeles to Riyadh. Mies was personally taciturn, but his vision was evangelical. He claimed that he had the answer, that his modern style was an architectural ultimate. "With Mies," wrote MOMA's Drexler in 1960, "architecture leaves childhood behind." In fact, it seems that Mies' example, brilliant in itself, provoked a prolonged architectural adolescence, a period when a stylistic conformism was enforced. To be modern, a building was obliged to wear what Critic Reyner Banham...
Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, chairman of the Republican National Committee and a close friend of President Reagan's, was being uncharacteristically taciturn. Laxalt had been dispatched by Reagan to Manila for four days of personal chats with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. What did they talk about? "I'm sorry, I can't comment," he told reporters as he left Manila. Was he satisfied with the talks? "Quite." Did he accomplish his mission? "I hope...
DIED. Raoul Salan, 85, taciturn French general who led an aborted April 1961 putsch aimed at preserving French rule in Algeria, then founded and led the terrorist Secret Army Organization, which fought Algerian independence with a campaign of bombings and assassinations, including several attempts on the life of President Charles De Gaulle; in Paris. Famous as France's most decorated soldier, Salan commanded colonial troops in Indochina in 1952 and 1953; he was named French dele gate-general in Algeria when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. De Gaulle proceeded toward independence and ousted Salan, who later went...
Since Andrei Gromyko first appeared on the world scene as Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. during World War II, three generations of TIME correspondents have dogged the footsteps of this taciturn, publicity-shy diplomat. In Washington, at the United Nations and during almost every East-West crisis, reporters have waited, usually in vain, for the impenetrable Gromyko mask to slip...
Others who have met Chernenko are less eager to rush to judgment. Former President Jimmy Carter, who also watched him at Vienna, agrees that Chernenko was Brezhnev's right-hand man at the conference, but feels he was by no means merely a subservient functionary. Chernenko was taciturn, Carter recalls, yet he was frequently consulted by his Soviet colleagues...