Word: promethean
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...especially architecture, flourished until the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Indeed, it continued thereafter, for the New Deal conceived of the vast public work as an expression of shared potential, communal will and can-do. Its epitome, though, was the skyscraper, that uniquely American form. As a symbol of Promethean energy, the skyscraper has never been surpassed. It is the architecture of smooth-flowing congestion, an American ideal, and it took ever more glorious forms in such designs as the Empire State Building and the great, self-sufficient urban complex of Rockefeller Center...
While Dor Yeshorim has generally been well received within the Orthodox community, its outside reception has been mixed. Some hail the program as an effective attempt to reduce suffering and to prevent the perpetuation of these painful, often fatal, diseases. Others criticize Dor Yeshorim as a Promethean scenario; modern science has taken another step in abrogating the ancient role of God. In either case, Dor Yeshorim does raise several serious questions with implications far beyond the Orthodox Jewish community...
...ideas and technologies seemed to ratify older dreams of a perfectible life on earth, of an existence in which the shocks of nature had been tamed. But the unleashing of unparalleled progress was also accompanied by something quite different: a massive regression toward savagery. If technology endowed humans with Promethean aspirations and powers, it also gave them the means to exterminate one another...
...century of architecture is unequalled. Low-slung suburban houses, cathedral ceilings, wide-open interiors, the blurring of the indoor-outdoor distinction, office-building atriums -- there is scarcely any contemporary American architectural move that Wright's work did not presage 50, 75, even 100 years ago. His was a vast, Promethean talent, nearly as vast and Promethean as he and his biographer reckoned...
Unlike previous biographies, Citizen Welles gets to the bottom -- or should one say, false bottom -- of the man. At one level the book projects an old- world Promethean hero thundering against authority and convention. But conveyed with equal weight is an impresario of the self in the American maverick tradition of Charles Ives, Ezra Pound and even Mark Twain's the King and the Duke...