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...Secretary of State was the welling, heartfelt tribute that poured out to John Foster Dulles, 71, from around the non-Communist half of the world. Dulles had dedicated his diplomatic career-as Republican servant of the Truman Administration in drawing the Japanese peace treaty, as an architect of the United Nations, and as Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State for more than six years-to the concept that power must be wielded resolutely so that moral values of natural law and justice may take root worldwide...
Truth Against the World. Wright's jaunty assurance, charm, and dogged determination to achieve greatness were all in evidence by the time he was 19, looking for his first job as a draftsman in Chicago. His mother had destined him from the cradle to be an architect, hung his room with woodcuts of English cathedrals, hand-raised him according to the advanced Froebel kindergarten with its great emphasis on creative play with geometric blocks. Summertimes his mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses-bearded, hymn-singing Welshmen who still boasted of their Druid motto. "Truth Against the World...
...years he served an apprenticeship to the man he called "Lieber Meis-ter." "Form follows function," Sullivan insisted. "Form and function are one, and should be taken into the realm of the spiritual," young Wright replied, and struck out on his own. Soon adventuresome clients began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves...
Such pointed barbs, repeated in the late years over radio and TV, did not go unnoticed by his colleagues. "He no longer speaks to the present generation." one architect snapped...
...visitors Wright would boast of his 18 gold medals, declare: "They say I am the world's greatest architect. Perhaps I am. But who else is there? If architecture is what I conceive it to be, there has never been another architect...