Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...southern Africa, we have the trust of the Rhodesian government, the South African government, the front-line nations. We have a reservoir of support in the black African nations. If [the U.S.] puts a new player in the game -I'm not sure that we can keep that momentum going which is so critical...
...even buildings recognized as "historic," by any definition, are often destroyed out of sheer indifference. The list of lost buildings and their memories compiled by the National Trust is depressingly long. One example in particular makes me cringe, a description in Forgotten Architecture of a firefighting exercise in Annandale...
Unlike the loss of a team or ancient coins, the loss of socially focal and artistically valuable architecture is noted in passing, accepted after the fact as inevitable and necessary. America's Forgotten Architecture, written collectively by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, aims to wake our dormant awareness of the buildings we encounter daily, to make us realize how they matter and that we can and should keep them alive. Written to save the landmarks that mark the geography of American communities and their collective memories, the book is not a coffee-table volume of Historic Architecture glossies...
...conveys its meaning with my own experiences--what it signifies that Mather House is a fortress on the outskirts of Harvard's enclave, that Leverett House closely resembles a Holiday Inn, or that the Fogg imitates the palazzo of a Renaissance aristocrat. I was not daydreaming distractedly. The National Trust purposely relates their statements to individuals' experience by including exercises in architectural awareness (my favorite: "Find a building that repels you and ask yourself why."). An outline of styles in American architectural history and photographs of aspects of the built environment (from "Living Spaces" to "Commerce and Industry") provide categories...
...STOPPED and asked what can I do to combat the money and power that works to destroy the architecturally rendered meaning of a place? How can I fight those who move London Bridge to Arizona, or build a monument to President Pusey in Harvard Yard? And the National Trust doesn't answer, really. They are less enterprising in confronting the social issues than in analyzing the cultural deficiency, they are better at awakening the dormant sensibility of the man-on-the-street than they are at challenging the very alert interests of the developer and businessman...