Word: tilney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason is not for lack of trying. In 1959, a committee set up by Congress held an international competition, received 574 entries and picked as the winner a design by William Pedersen and Bradford Tilney, who proposed eight huge cantilevered concrete slabs bearing passages from F.D.R.'s speeches. It was dubbed "instant Stonehenge," after Britain's famous Druid ruins, received a panning from the public and the press and pained reactions from the Roosevelt family. Earlier this year, the committee decided to try again, this time without a competition. After considering the work of 15 architects, it unanimously...
...suspicion that lawyers are not as other men will be deepened rather than dispelled by Author-Lawyer Louis Auchincloss' twelve stories about Tower, Tilney & Webb, a great New York law firm. Auchincloss has become a habitual bestseller with his tales and novels (The Injustice Collectors') about the hereditary rich and the lawyers who themselves become rich by helping the rich stay that way. His current stories are about a specialized tribe within the specialized race-the grey men who deal in "green goods" (securities), and the sharpies who can reduce the tax bite to a friendly...
...characters at Tower, Tilney & Webb, from Senior Partner Clitus Tilney down to the most recent ex-editor of the Yale Law Journal, regard it as the summit of human felicity to be senior partner of Tower, Tilney & Webb. All the behavior of all the characters, even to their manner of dress and the way their hair grows (thick for the comers, sparse, long, oily or fluffy for the outsiders and no-hopers), centers on this notion. Their private life is spent among other lawyers and their wives. They move by the tropisms of power and fear in a world...
...design sculptor is 32-year-old Norman Hoberman, who worked with a team from the Manhattan architectural firm of Pedersen & Tilney. Hoberman rejected the idea of any kind of statue, because "there is so much photographic material on F.D.R." Nor did he want another anachronism such as a modified Greek temple (the Lincoln Memorial) or an Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument). Instead, he proposed perpendicular tablets carrying quotations from Roosevelt. Commented Jury Chairman Pietro Belluschi: "I hate to bring up Moses and his tablets, but this is a sort of version of them...