Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humans like the rest of us--the message of The Right Stuff, 1979. And now, Wolfe has passed the word that we are wrong if we liked any building in the Western Hemisphere constructed after World War II--a few Miami Beach hotels and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright excepted. There is something a little cranky about all this; Wolfe has a tendency to whine, albeit amusingly...
...course, Wolfe is an unabashed layman with a superficial familiarity with much of the work; his analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright misses much of the old man's influence, and his indictment of Louis Kahn rings a bit hollow. Furthermore, he misses the point of the renewed interest in classicism, exemplified by Phillip Johnson's plans for the still-incomplete AT&T building in New York City. Wolfe views the neo-classicism merely as Gropius in Roman ropes, when it may reflect more deeply the wide dissatisfaction with the glass...
Josephine P. Wright, a former assistant professor of Afro-American Studies who filed a discrimination complaint against Harvard last spring, recently dropped the complaint after accepting a research appointment at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research...
Last year, after being denied tenure, Wright requested a one-year teaching extension of her contract, which would enable her to finish a government-sponsored research project on Black American musical folklore...
...more ideal recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature than Elias Canetti, 76, would have to be invented. When the Bulgarian-born novelist, play wright and essayist, with his Einsteinian white mane and mustache, arrives in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to claim the $180,000 award, he will precisely fit the Swedish Academy's taste in laureates. Canetti's sensibilities, like those of last year's winner, Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz, are survivors of Europe's prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably...