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...exactly suited the temperament of a young philanthropist, John Nicholas Brown, who was looking to build a summer home on Fishers Island, R.I., for his family. Brown was a Harvard-educated man with a life-long passion for modern art and architecture. Interested in medieval art during the early 1920s, he collaborated with the architect Ralph Adams Cram to design the interior of the Gothic Chapel at St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. Brown’s interest soon shifted to modern art, and he was a member of the junior advisory committee during the founding...
...residence in Lincoln, Mass. are perhaps the best examples of this style. Both houses were built contemporaneously with Windshield, and the three houses use much of the same structural vocabulary, due in part to the fact that Neutra, an Austrian emigré, worked under Wright during the 1920s...
...terrorists. Osama bin Laden has made plain that the Saudi regime is his ultimate target. Saudi rulers know all about Islamic militancy. They have been dealing with it--rather effectively and rarely with kid gloves--since Ibn Saud's forces slaughtered the religious zealots of the Ikhwan in the 1920s...
...grateful that Al Gore isn't sitting in the White House. In this sense, the N.P. is nonpartisan, though it tilts toward the conservative (when someone wants to blow up your country, you naturally want to conserve it). Bill Clinton is a relic of another time, like the 1920s party boy F. Scott Fitzgerald stranded in the landscape of the Great Depression...
Around the corner rolls a pickup truck that looks like it just came in from the Iowa State Fair in the 1920s. On the red cab doors are yellow Turkel posters—it’s her husband, who has come to deliver Carberry’s coffee and croissants to Segat and to a volunteer with a Turkel sign...