Word: angular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Johannes Urzidil, 74, Prague-born writer, close friend and disciple of Franz Kafka, best known for There Goes Kafka, in which he explained that his mentor's tense angular sketches were not mere doodles, as many critics thought, but graphic expressions of individuality lost in authoritarian bureaucracy; of a stroke; in Rome...
Mather House is the future. Stone cold, fluorescent, angular, it juts into our eyes like a stiletto from the next century. Its proportions are so gargantuan that even an unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...
...promising newcomer to the VW line is the five-passenger K-70, which will make its debut at the Paris auto show this week. The K70 represents a radical departure in VW's diversification drive. It has angular lines and a water-cooled, front-end engine instead of the usual rear-end, air-cooled one. Already praised by Continental critics, the K70 will go on sale in Germany in November. Company chiefs contend that the K70 will not be brought to America until it has an automatic gearshift, which VW feels is imperative in this hotly contested U.S. market...
...designed a poplar-lined road that traces an almost complete circle from a cluster of old buildings to the outermost playing fields and back again. Then he intercepted the circle with five new academic buildings (a student center, lecture hall, library, administration building and arts center) set along an angular pedestrian "spine." These new buildings gave personality and vigor to the college and landscape, thus resolving Fredonia's great problem of formless anonymity. Moreover, they never turn their backs on their older neighbors; rather the new honor and upgrade the old. It is an architecture of good manners...
...glare, hair and high-top shoes mossy with age. The language is English, the rhythms Irish, the author unmistakable: "Dying is such a long tiresome business I always find." Down front, standing in the third row, the world-famous recluse is silhouetted against the light, angular with shy intellection, gray hair en brosse, the jug ears set low, long left arm and skinny hand reaching up, pointing out how it should...