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...would be cowardly." said the governor, "to take this [statue] down simply to appease certain people. If we start censorship, who will do the censoring?" Then, still thinking of November, he passed the buck to the building's architect, who had the nude taken down...
...shrewd move to make the most of his power and prestige, he arranged that the new President would be chosen not by Congress, but by direct popular vote. The move was almost too successful; for a while he had no opposition at all. Finally an obscure architect named Fénelon J. Alphonse came forward to stand against the popular colonel. At first no one would believe Magloire was not paying his expenses. But after thugs shot up his house, Alphonse plastered the capital with handbills proclaiming: "Down with dictatorship! Long live the rights...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, admitted yesterday, that his office has been disturbed recently over reports that dwellers in the new Center have been importing sofas, bookcases, and other large furnishings from old rooms. This influx of comparative period pieces has forced the furniture designed by center chief architect Walter Gropins, professor of Architecture, out of the small rooms...
Works of genius can really mix up a neighborhood, or so some residents of West Hartford, Conn, maintain. Two years ago the nation's most noted architect, 81-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright, designed a theater for West Hartford, and ever since then the townspeople have been squabbling about whether it should be built. Wright's backers recently proposed a referendum to decide the issue, but last week his opponents got a temporary injunction to stop it. That brought the old man himself roaring down on them out of the West...
...French delegation, headed by conservative Architect Gaston Bardet, had a far different notion of how the "trash" might be eliminated. The church, Bardet proposed, should draw up a set of rules and regulations governing sacred art. Lavanoux opposed the resolution, saw it voted down. Few of the conferees believed that good religious art could ever be produced by rules...