Word: wren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various forms of banking operations have been conducted since the Middle Ages. Behind forbidding stone walls broods "the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street"-the Bank of England-which controls the currency that finances 40% of all international trade. Clustered near by, interspersed with some 30 churches built by Christopher Wren, are 150 banking houses with such famous names as Barclays, Midland and Lloyds. British banks have for generations made the whole world their oyster, have extensive and direct knowledge of business conditions and customers overseas. Altogether, they have sprouted 500 branches in foreign lands, five times as many...
Practical Romance. Elsewhere, Leibnitz and Newton were demonstrating man's command of his environment through advances in science. Sir Christopher Wren had surpassed romantic vision with brick and stone. Napoleon was soon to end forever Europe's old order. And in Venice, where romance had always been well salted with practicality, Canaletto's lucid art bridged the opposed worlds. He stands to this day, as it was said of his city, "between the morning and the evening lands...
...silvery Cessna Wren scudded high above the Plain of Jars, and the tiny man in rumpled fatigues peered down through eyes red-rimmed with exhaustion. Below him the wind moved casually over apple-green downs, setting the jade-colored rice fields to shivering. A few pagodas, their tiled roofs torn by howitzer shells, yawned at the sun. On the barren hilltops, orange-colored lines of slit trenches spread like ringworm across the Plain of Jars, which had been fought over for three years by Communist Pathet Lao troops and neutralist forces. The tired little passenger in the Wren was neutralist...
Redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 after the Great Fire of London, the church will be moved stone by stone and completely reconstructed at a cost...
...looked the building over, not with the eye of a professional architect, but of a person who takes an interest in his surroundings. The building appeared to me a very good one indeed. It was exciting, full of movement, possessed vitality and reflected not the vision of Christopher Wren or Thomas Jefferson but of our own time and our own temper. At that point I did not know the name of the architect or even the name or function served by the building, I stopped two undergraduates and inquired what the building was used for. They said...