Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Lloyd Wright could be called the first New World architect. Unlike his distinguished American predecessors, he did not look toward classical or European models for inspiration. He advocated and used indigenous materi als designed to harmonize with natural settings...
...Glenn. He has the right stuff, but he also possesses a moralizing streak as wide as the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. At a press conference introducing all seven Mercury astronauts, Glenn comes across as a showboater spouting platitudes about God and Country and Family and the Wright Brothers...
...captain of the corps of cadets, president of his class of 1959, captain of the football team, Heisman Trophy winner and a "star man," ranking in the top 5% of his class academically. No other West Pointer has mustered all those honors, before or since. After Dawkins married Judith Wright in 1961, he studied philosophy, politics and economics as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, where he excelled at Britain's own game, rugby. Then he enrolled at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School: in 1969 he earned a master's degree and he then returned to Princeton...
Most viewers will leave the show painfully aware of the qualities missing in our present surroundings. Foremost is the matter of scale. Although some Prairie School designs appear monumental, they are still comfortably related to the mortals who view them and use them. Wright, a short man, managed to give grandeur to a chair or a room or a house without intimidating us with its size. Nor does Prairie School ornament appear in the self-conscious manner in which post-modernists now glue or paint it on their designs. Wright and the Prairie School's precise geometric decorations...
...that we suddenly take to the warm, womblike darkness, the friendly formality of wood furniture and the comforting earth colors of Wright's interiors because we desperately need what they convey. Although we may be fleetingly thrilled, we are surely not satisfied with what fashionable ulterior design offers today. The model living room, as depicted in the stores and decorator magazines, has become America's disaster area. We have a choice between bizarrely abstract furnishings in chrome or lacquer, alienated from living reality, and eclectic kitsch heaped on like the toppings on ice cream sundaes-not much...