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...struggle to distill the building process to its essentials--vertical and horizontal structure, bare but lustrous materials--Mies produced his poetry through painstaking details. He made a fetish of the proper way to expose the steel I beams at the corners of his buildings. As Frank Lloyd Wright also did, Mies exploded the confined rooms of 19th century interior space, producing the open-plan homes and work spaces--"universal space" he called it--that are now pretty much universal...
Mies was a man with his share of contradictions. All his life he combined the bearing and wardrobe of a bourgeois with a merciless intellectual radicalism. This may be why, with his constant cigar, he could look at times like Mephistopheles in a Brechtian update of Faust. Like Wright, he also sustained a 19th century romantic notion of himself as an artist, a man answerable only to his own instincts. (After just a few years of marriage in the 1920s, his hapless wife Ada decided to stop resisting his regular infidelities and move out.) Mies insisted that the architect must...
Other college administrators share McCardell's frustration. "If there were an 18- or 19-year-old drinking age, we could address the issues more favorably," says Dartmouth College President James Wright. As it is, "we can't go around sniffing students' breath or smelling their cups." Despite their complaints, college heads have been disinclined to make a public case for lowering the drinking age, knowing how controversial that would be. Meanwhile, on a number of campuses, administrators are employing what turns out to be a remarkably powerful tool to curb excessive drinking: simple information. When college students are asked...
...achieved complete hematological and cytological remission. The side effects are so minimal that my quality of life has improved dramatically. Today's cancer patients should be encouraged to seek out whatever treatment is available in the expectation that they will survive to benefit from new discoveries. THOMAS J. WRIGHT Pinellas Park...
...they be the names of the Muslims, atheists, Jews or Buddhists who opt out of his prayer sessions? Hardly. If Ashcroft were a manager in my business, I'd order him to stop his meetings. Hey--come to think of it, it is my business and my building! PAM WRIGHT Pasadena, Calif...