Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, F.O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, all previously named to the Seminar faculty will head the University's contingent to Salzburg, added by newly-appointed Harvard graduate assistants Villa Cans, Carl Kaysen 2G, Mark Linenthal, Jr. 2G Kenneth S. Lynn '45, and Jacob C. Levenson, Teaching Fellow in History and Literature...
...proud Papa of a New Architecture which has tenaciously taken root to challenge traditionalist patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...
...Gropius architecture and city planning are part and parcel of the same problem: bettering the physical environment and thus the well-being of Man. This is his point of departure from Wright, for whom he has the greatest admiration. Although a rebel to the core, past master of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school, Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined...
...twister swept on. Up ahead, at Glazier (pop. 125), the sky turned black. Big, 240-lb. C. S. Wright closed up his filling station and with his friend Art Beebe, headed for home. In the basement of his two-story masonry house, the two men braced themselves against the door...
With a roar, the tornado hit. It blew the house down, yanked Beebe out of the basement, 30 feet in the air, and carried him 200 yards due east. Wright was borne 40 feet aloft with "a lot of timber" which battered and scratched him. He landed some 300 yards away in a wild plum thicket. After the storm had passed, bewildered cattle stood bellowing, boards and sticks driven into their sides. Only the concrete jail remained intact. In the town's crumpled ruins, Wright and Beebe and other survivors found 16 dead and dying...