Word: wright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metaphysical absurdity to discuss the competence with which a hole is rendered. (Its surroundings will do.) The play is preceded at the Club 47 by A Resounding Tinkle (also an American premiere), a slighter and less interesting drama in which Beryl Kinrose-Wright provides a particularly fine performance...
...sanity. As a driving instructor, he maintains classroom calm while he sits in the front seat of a car with a lady who goes 75 in her driveway. As an eager 1904 entrepreneur, he tries to start transcontinental passenger service at once by putting a toilet on the Wright brothers' plane. As a stiff-lipped submarine commander, he tells the crew: "I think our firing on Miami Beach can best be termed ill-timed...
With the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architecture has been sadly wanting in men who are both poet-visionaries and builders as well. One architect who comes close to filling the role is Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn, 59, a short, wiry figure almost unknown outside his own profession, but whose thoughtful making of spaces provides what many critics consider a whole textbook of new forms...
...when 16 of its 19 plants were idle, revitalized the ailing company. He slashed costs, ramrodded through a diversification program into electronics, plastics, nuclear reactors, rockets and ultrasonics. But in pushing diversification, he let his research and work on products coming off the line lag. Although the Wright turbo compound engine was standard on both the DC-7 and Super Constellation, it proved so unsatisfactory that airlines were not interested in Wright engines for the new jet airliners. Defense business also faded...
Only a Vanderbilt. Lapidus graduated from the Columbia School of Architecture in 1927, began his career as the shoe-store Frank Lloyd Wright by pioneering in store-front design that turned drab show windows into eye-catching display cases. But his lavish future was foreshadowed when a gold, walnut and marble bathroom that he designed for Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt caused her husband to complain: "I'm only a Vanderbilt, not a Rockefeller!" By 1943 the fun had gone out of store design, and Lapidus branched into architecture on his own. For several years he worked mainly...