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...cancel his trip. Then, in a gesture that emphasized the rebuff the U.S. had suffered, Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama formally reported the decision to a dark, ruggedly handsome man who bears a name all Japan once honored. For Douglas MacArthur II, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo and the principal architect of present-day U.S. policy toward Japan, Kishi's retreat was an unhappy confirmation of his own growing doubts about the Ike visit. With a mixture of relief and bitter regret, Mac-Arthur phoned the news to the Eisenhower party in Manila...
...glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe's tallest, and was designed by a native son, world-famed Architect Gio Ponti...
Nothing was safe from it, for art and craftsmanship had been declared equal. Architects designed chinaware and brooches; some painters even gave up their canvases ("Down with these useless objects") to potter around with posters and fancy screens. When Toulouse-Lautrec dined at the home of the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, he found that the food had been chosen for its color. It was characteristic of the age that Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray had one favorite novel bound in nine different ways to suit his changing moods...
...that the German architect Alexander Koch sounded a theme for the growing style by calling for the "complete integration of all artists, architects, sculptors, painters and technical artists." Just as Wagner had tried to create a "total theater" so there was now to be a total art, embracing every conceivable object. Though Belgium more than any other country led the way, the new style seemed to pop up all over the Western world...
Blake & Botany. Before it got its final name, the French called it Moderne, the Spanish Modernismo, the Germans Jugendstil. Architect Hector Guimard, who designed Paris elaborate Metro stations, blandly called it the Guimard Style. To some irreverent critics of the day, it was also the Tapeworm Style. In Art Nouveau's orchidaceous world of tendrilar lines, sweeping forms and bright stained glass, old Japanese woodcuts, the drawings of William Blake and a new fascination with botany all had their influence...