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...doing. Answered the first: "I am following my trade." Said the second: "I am making a living." But the third, rising to his full height, replied: "Sir, I am building a temple." The lesson is simple: to Earl Warren the law is a temple and the Supreme Court a builder. And by last week the blueprints were ready, the mortar was flying, and the marble blocks were moving toward a new look in U.S. legal architecture...
Graft & Patronage. Not even the efficient behemoths, however, can eliminate all the road builder's problems. He must fight a tight-money market to finance his equipment buying, deal with a welter of conflicting and often obsolete state regulations. Road building has always been blighted by graft, ranging from political kickbacks for contracts to small bribes to persuade local police to let the huge machines move over restricted roads to their job sites. Says Pittsburgh Contractor Max Harrison: "When I started out in this business in 1923 everyone connected with it was a crook." While the crooks have become...
Quality v. Quantity. In San Francisco builders who concentrated on $12,000 to $15,000 houses in 1955 are building and selling $18,000 to $30,000 houses this year. A Seattle builder is busy with a 75-house development ($25,000 and up), is selling to families who lived in $15,000 homes a few years ago. One Dallas builder has made 72 sales of $22,000 houses since Easter. In Atlanta, where overall building is down 30%, builders of $25,000 houses are selling all they can build; some report a waiting list of customers...
...plays chosen were: "The School of Women," by Moliere; "Tis a Pity She's a Whore," by John Ford; "The Master Builder," by Henrik Ibsen; and "The Good Woman of Setzuan," by Bertold Brecht...
Orpheus Descending is a rewrite by Tennessee Williams of a Williams play, Battle of Angels, that headed for Broadway in 1940 but folded in Boston. A certain sense of remodeling, of altered stairs and corridors, of trapdoors inserted and windows removed, hangs over the play. But the builder's identity, whatever the stage or the style of construction, is never in doubt. Williams writes of life in a backward, bigoted Southern town, and of a young guitar-playing itinerant who arrives there. He becomes involved with its unhappy women, and as a result with its unreasoning...