Word: philip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COMIN' UPTOWN Music by Garry Sherman; Book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell; Lyrics by Peter Udell...
FICTION: Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Passion Play, Jerzy Kosinski ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth ∙ Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner, Edited by Joseph Blotner
...fact, any large building erected during the late 1950s or '60s is likely to be an oil-thirsty white elephant, particularly the glass-box skyscrapers that sprouted in New York and other big cities. "Cheap oil made us very lazy," admits the illustrious Philip Johnson, 73, who with the equally illustrious Mies van der Rohe designed Manhattan's Seagram Building. Conceived by their creators as formal abstractions, such austere structures bore out the "less is more" precept in an unintended way: they used far more heating and cooling energy than the buildings they replaced. Now owners are scrambling to make...
...Philip J. Atkinson's legendary deed...
...does the author support such an audacious accusation? Davis disdains hard facts and instead relies on her own presumptuous brand of psychology. "Once a widow, always a widow" Davis's primer seems to say; and Graham's pruported insecurities are accordingly traced to her prolonged grief over husband Philip's suicide. She plays the party line because she craves the approval of her Presidents...