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Indeed it was. Union Station's architect, Daniel H. Burnham, operated on a simple motto: "Make no little plans." He modeled his beaux-arts palace on Rome's Diocletian Baths and the triumphal Arch of Constantine. When it opened in 1907, luxuriously appointed with mahogany, crystal, brass and marble, its 760-ft.-long, 45-ft.-high concourse was the largest room in the world under a single roof. Niches in the façade held carved avatars of fire, electricity, agriculture and mechanics, each weighing 25 tons...
...history as an issue. I never lost sight of it. At a time when most American architecture students were taught to disdain the lessons of the past, I had to draw acanthus leaves and the classic columns. Back in Dublin, we got rigid, old-fashioned Ecole des Beaux-Arts training...
...clearly that the social encounters of Fran's single life are empty and boring: the chitchat, as the incredible trolley slides across the stage, is just that. We are convinced of the rightness of Alfred's choice of farce as a device when Fran's unacceptable, unsympathetic beaux parade through her living room and her crazy German neighbors scream from upstairs; these scenes and characters compose the essentials of farce, so much so that they end by being wholly unbelievable...
...Beaux Arts Trio--Menahem Pressier, plano, Isldore Cohen, Vtolin, and Bernard Greenhouse, cello; music of Haydn, lyes and Mendeissohn; Sanders Theater...
...Balzac. Yet Rodin's superiority was not so evident when he was young. His father was a small fonctionnaire, stuck in the French bureaucratic anthill. His school record was poor, and he failed three times to be accepted by the main art school in Paris, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Until his early 30s, nothing he made was noted, and he simply contributed his anonymous efforts to the studios of other sculptors, patinating, chasing, designing decorative masks-the laborious hackwork of an age of commemorative sculpture. He was in his late 30s before he managed to get a major...