Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Goodwin, "all they have to do is keep walking and they'll come back to where they started." Other notable round buildings for religion in the U.S.: Frank Lloyd Wright's Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation near Milwaukee, Saarinen's chapels at M.I.T. and Drake University, William Hidell's St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Dallas...
Conceding the necessity of spending for sheer survival, corporate executives nonetheless complain that the brightest young scientists are flocking into Government-guided work instead of into what Zenith Radio President J. S. Wright calls "the mundane world of household goods." Not only are the glamorous frontier technologies more challenging to inventors, but they are also more rewarding because of generous Government cost-plus contracts...
WHAT A WAY TO Go (310 pp.)-Wright Morris-Atheneum...
Veteran Novelist Wright Morris' new book is a kind of Cook's tour of literary themes and cultural scenes that have recently proved captivating to American consumers. It has a collection of bizarre travelers on a sea voyage (Ship of Fools), a love story between professorial January and a relentlessly teen-aged May (Lolita), and sightseeing trips through Venice, Corfu and Athens (Greece, after all, is the In place to visit). Despite all this shifting scenery, What a Way to Go never really gets moving. But thanks to Author Morris' gift for cleverness and crazy characterization...
...TIME associate editor in the '30s and a LIFE senior writer in the '40s, Busch visited Japan to interview survivors of the disaster. Even so, he has had to pad his pages with ruminations about earthquake phenomena and Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Imperial Hotel, which withstood the shock and created a legend that made the architect's international reputation. The legend neglected to point out that 99% of Tokyo's buildings actually rode out the tremors, if not the fire...