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Mississippi-born Composer Still's music has a homespun quality, but it is as varied as his own background of Scottish, Irish, American Indian and Negro ancestors. He tries to avoid repeating himself ("after all, an architect wouldn't want to design the same kind of house all the time"). Making movie music (at $250 a day) ceased to interest him because he felt that he had to do "my work in my own good time, and in my own good...
...Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's advice to 500 members and guests of Chicago's Art Directors Club, in annual meeting: "The first thing you should do is forget that you're artists . . . you're only the hands of the machine and you know there's nothing in America that can stand up against the machine. If you were 'Art Directors' . . . you would put the machine in its place . . . You all use your work for comfort. There's no beauty or truth in it ... What is there you really reverence? ... Is there anything...
...piece of unreal estate in Connecticut-a pleasant-looking, rump-sprung old house which they are wild to patch up and are promptly advised to tear down. They get a lot of belated advice from their lawyer friend (Melvyn Douglas), and they go into a huddle with an architect (Reginald Denny) who is willing to design practically anything-at a price. Before their homing instinct comes to roost at last they have been put through the wringer by practically every type of swindler involved in, or parasitic upon, the building trades. Blandings saves his neglected job by the skin...
Sheets is up at 7 every morning, to start a round of activity which permits no time for dreaming. In one day he may drive into Claremont for a meeting of the City Planning Commission, confer with his partner (he is also an architect) about the design of a new church or country club, teach a class at Scripps College (where he heads the nine-man art department), and paint a picture. Evenings-unless by chance he has been asked to make a speech on foreign affairs-he devotes to his wife and four children and to the guests they...
...artist-teacher-architect," Sheets explains. "If I contented myself with painting I would not be living a well-rounded life. One of my students asked me the other day how many materials I had worked in, and I counted 75 including pottery...