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...syrup of romanticism. In the history of the romantic movement in the nineteenth century there is plenty of the emotional overtone which grates so harshly on Mr. Babbitt's ear. He goes after it with all his guns. His methods are simple. Beginning with Jean Jacques Rousseau, his arch-enemy, who he appears to believe is responsible for everything that has happened in the last century except the breaking of the halyard on Shamrock V, he makes all the romanticists ridiculous. This is very easy. Mr. Babbitt will glance around the room and say: "I see that the schooner Romance...
...puffed his pipe reminiscently, a quaint gargoyle in a roseate paradise, which betrayed the artistic aspiration of the nouvenu riche. Then he tapped the ashes reflectively on the white arch and set his alarm clock for an early rising hour in order that he might enjoy his soft boiled eggs in the dining room at breakfast, before the strike of nine sounded the liberation of the chickens from their daily toil...
Ceylon sunbeams beat wickedly last week on the high silk topper of Australia's arch-protectionist Prime Minister, James Henry Scullin, the Laborite who has ringed his Dominion with both a tariff wall and a barbed wire circle of embargoes (TIME, July...
Died. Sir Aston Webb*, 81, one of the only two architects ever elected president of the British Royal Academy; after long illness, in London. He designed many of London's greatest public buildings: the Admiralty Arch at the east end of the Mall, the Royal College of Science, the new front of Buckingham Palace...
...problem often pondered by U. S. architects is that of making Manhattan's Battery Park truly "The Gateway to the Nation." Foremost designers and designs in the past: 1) Arthur Ware-A triumphal arch, axised on Broadway with an esplanade enclosed by a peristyle, flanked by two buildings, one dedicated to the Army, one to the Navy. 2) Christopher Grant La Farge-An ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft...