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...have a most interesting piece on Frank Lloyd Wright, the "world's greatest living architect." Naturally I've known of Mr. Wright's abilities for years, but went anyway to my library to see again the photographs of his work. I agree he has everything-everything but taste...
...Photographer Zerbe is probably aware that Architect Wright also has something to say on that subject: ". . . What is taste? What conscience is in morals, taste is, no doubt, in the realm of esthetics. It is a mysterious authority, neither learned nor reasoned but there, regardless . . . In simplest terms taste is indeed what we like . . . In the modern world, however, taste is not homogeneous...
...policy, Elizabeth Bentley testified that White, carrying out Communist Party orders, was the architect of the Morgenthau plan for the postwar emasculation of Germany. White's boss, Henry Morgenthau Jr., carried this plan to the 1944 Quebec Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill. It called for the dismantling of German industry and the creation of a "pastoral" Germany. Witness Bentley said that this plan was espoused by Communist grand strategy to create a power vacuum between Russia and a weakened Western Europe, so that the whole Continent would be subject to the weight of Russian power...
Autographing copies of his latest work, The Future of Architecture, in a Chicago bookstore, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 84, cast a cranky eye on his literary surroundings and snorted: "Books, books, books! Well. I suppose they're all right for people who have nothing...
Peeking over the wall of a villa near Cannes, the curious saw a squat, slow-footed man trying to absorb the Riviera sunshine through a heavy, fur-collared coat and baggy cap. The man, who proclaimed himself an architect from Paris, wallowed in luxury amidst the pines. He had five cars and a swimming pool at his disposal, was guarded night & day by a patrol of gun-toting guards and police dogs. The architect: Maurice Thorez, ailing boss of France's Communist Party...