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...jolly vulgarity of a man who kisses his wife too loudly, a man who drops his "h"'s and speaks with the accent of a true-blue Cockney. He has the reverence for learning of a man whose own education has been rudimentary, and he gleefully refers to Ibsen, Walt Whitman and Kipling with would be casualty. Unashamedly unfaithful to his wife, he has no qualms about attempting to seduce the dashing Polish aviatrix who has dropped into his greenhouse, and into his "evergreen heart...
...Walt Whitman, Camden...
...capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight vessels at a time. Bard of it all was Walt Whitman, whose spirit trembled at the call of an industrial giant that thrived on the energy, poetry and power of machines. Whitman loved the noise of Camden, and his poems sang the glorious, churning, clangorous, whirlwind mess...
...Johnson meeting with advisors just after the assassination, as if the new President couldn't even wait for his predecessor to be decently buried to start bombing hamlets. What Stone doesn't mention is that the people eager for fighting were the advisors, top Kennedy men like Bundy, Walt Rostow and McNamara...
Disney's patronage of famous architects has produced many entertaining buildings. Now it has produced a great one. Arata Isozaki's office block at Walt Disney World manages to be both utilitarian and whimsical, to convey a sense of gravitas and architectural boogie-woogie. For a company that prides itself on extreme frugality and makes a virtue of simplemindedness, Isozaki's building is happily improbable. After entering via a large red granite cube punched with dozens of not exactly functional windows, the army of bean counters who work there pass through a 120-ft.-tall, open-to-the-sky cylinder...