Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, in stressing long-term projects such as dams ("Nuri's Pyramids," they were called) and a few such eventual luxuries as a million-dollar opera house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and letting favored sheiks gain most of the quick benefits of prosperity, the old regime neglected the immediate needs of the fellahin. "If everyone could fall asleep for ten years," Nuri is reported to have said once, "we would all wake up to something beautiful." But the fellahin in their mud slums, working for rapacious landlords, did not want to wait...
When we think of Shakespearean productions, our minds usually turn to the Stratford-on-Avon Festival and the Old Vic. These are now established institutions; the former began on the play-wright's tercentenary in 1864 and after rough sledding has continued as we know it from 1879, while the Old Vic has been a home for Shakespeare since...
Illinois Institute of Technology's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, architect of stark, skeletal glass and steel skyscrapers. Widely reckoned to be one of this century's three most influential architects (with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier), German-born Mies was trained as a stonemason. He headed Germany's revolutionary Bauhaus group of artists and architects from 1930 until Nazi pressure forced him to close it in 1933, migrated to the U.S. in 1938. Popular renown came, along with occasional harsh words from Wright and other critics, with Mies's design of Illinois Tech...
...until the 18th hole in the final round of the U.S. Golf Association's women's open did California's Mickey Wright, 23, admit to herself that she had a chance to win. Then she flubbed her approach shot and had to settle for a par. But she was still right where she had been all through the tournament-far in front. She finished five strokes ahead of Georgia's Louise Suggs, became the first woman ever to win the pro and open titles in the same season...
...station promptly suspended him, next day was swamped by the greatest flood of mail and phone calls in its history. "We've never had such literate and highly abusive calls before," admitted bemused KCOP. Telegrams poured in, including one from Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, himself a curmudgeon of stature: "Have just canceled order for my 15th Philco. I don't need anybody either. But you are a good deed in a naughty world." Snorted Oscar himself: "My leaving Channel 13 is a catastrophe for the community. The channel will now revert to its cloacal status with such intellectual...