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...approved by the Venice city council-had been seen by the public, the battle began. The idea of a Frank Lloyd Wright house on the Grand Canal was enough. The art critic of the Italian weekly L'Europeo announced that "even if Wright were ten thousand times greater than Michelangelo, it would be presumptuous of him to wish to build on the Grand Canal." Letter writers to the London Times denounced the Wright invasion as "a piece of inexcusable vandalism." Mrs. Marie Truxtun Beale, a wealthy U.S. socialite, who helped raise more than $125,000 for repairs...
...legends, Latouche and Moross have yet contrived something attractively individual. The Golden Apple is much less satire meant to strike home than a front-porch-and-parlor version of Homer. The local Venus wins the golden apple in a pie-baking contest. The face that launched a thousand ships now sets perhaps a thousand tongues awagging. Scylla and Charybdis are a slick pair of brokers. The famed vanished song the sirens sang turns out to have...
...cover the 45 million households spread out across the nation. To the layman, the sample seems woefully small. Even the slightest mistake is multiplied 1,800 times. Yet statisticians claim they can get accurate results, and point to the 1950 census, which showed a difference of only a few thousand in unemployment totals based on a 3⅓% sample, a 20% sample and a complete count...
...thousand books, emphasis on science, government, and . . . . record room too, lead 'em down into the tunnels...
...collection in the result of work by many people rather than a few, for within a few weeks of its founding on January 9, 1919, there days after Roosevelt's death, the association had attracted many thousand of members. Its aims, as stated in the charter were: "To erect a D. C., to build a momental memorial park at Oyster Bay, Land Island (Roosevelt's home), and to propagate the policies and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt." The first task remains undone, but the other two have been successfully completed, as a thriving park on Long Island and the immense library...