Word: wright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orville Wright...
...FORUM points out, "the church of the future . . . will have to be regarded as expendable. New York is currently witnessing the impact of present-day economy on the traditional concept of the church: the dramatic demolition of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, which Frank Lloyd Wright declared the finest in New York. Located on one of Fifth Avenue's costliest and most coveted corners [48th Street], it will make way for an office building...
Bare but Not Barren. Like the great churches of the past, the new buildings designed by such brilliant moderns as Wright, the Saarinens, Antonin Raymond and Pietro Belluschi are "functional" in that they use the latest structural materials and techniques in such a way as to emphasize rather than conceal the way they were built. As Architect Belluschi tells prospective clients, he loves the Gothic far too much to design a cheap imitation that conceals a steel frame behind an ivied stone facade...
...road to salvation, and he called me damned, laying his hand upon me in so saying, for finding another road from his to the Christ he pretends to revere. He told me yesterday that Ernest Renan, Charles Dickens, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Merton ('a weak T. S. Eliot'), and Bishop Wright were damned...
Over the weekend, on a visit to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, he demonstrated his capabilities as a pilot by flying a 6-25 bomber on a 25-minute hop. He was still going strong, still finding the country wonderful, still looking, forward, with no perceptible glazing of the eyes, to visiting the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Sun Valley, Idaho...