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This text has the same importance for Post-Modernism as Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture, published in 1923, did for Modernism. It is, in other words, one of the hinges of recent architectural history. In tone, Venturi's manifesto was almost diffident: "Architects can no longer afford to be...
Amis includes a respectable swatch of Jonathan Swift speculating on his coming demise and of T.S. Eliot musing on cats ("Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,/ There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity"). John Betjeman, England's reigning poet laureate, displays a light...
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ADAMS HOUSE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM. Song Recital, Pamela Gore, alto marks of Hindemith, Brahms, Pinkham and Vers Jan 13 8:30 p m.
Readers of '20s Columnist Don Marquis sometimes found his space occupied by the work of archy, a lowly lower-case friend, archy never had the strength to depress the upper-case key, and his punctuation was atonal in any key. It was understandable; though he had been a "vers...