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Standing thus before the picture window of his penthouse studio, Hugh Ferriss, U.S. architecture's most grandiose seer, has often watched dawn come to Manhattan. In that same studio for 17 years he has let his imagination conjure up the future city-magnificent crystal towers, highways like gleaming strips of satin, the aerial span of bridges. For a quarter-century his penciled imaginings have decorated the rotogravure section of the New York Times, the pages of architectural magazines. A professional at architectural "rendering," and otherwise untrammeled by blueprints and specifications, Hugh Ferriss long ago evolved his own self-definition...
Last week these two simple but significant facts became crystal clear...
...much further can the railroads carry this increase in efficiency? Last week the nations' shippers (through their Shippers' Advisory Boards) peered into a crystal ball, came up with their quarterly advance carloading forecast. Their figures: loadings will be 14.6% greater in this year's second quarter than last year; an average of better than one million car-loadings weekly by June...
...wished, to stay in the Viceroy's elephantine palace in New Delhi. This red sandstone and white granite symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet of teak and rosewood and gold. Sir Stafford would find ample and luxurious space for meditation in one of its 54 bedrooms...
Marianne Moore's poetry is a small museum full of such devotedly matter-of-fact observations. In What Are Years are reindeer, ostriches, paperweights, pangolins, college students, paper nautiluses, quartz-crystal clocks, butterflies, Negroes, France, speech, patch-box inscriptions, triskelions and juniper boughs-a partial list. These things Moore treats not as subject matter but as object matter; and she sees in their essential structure object lessons about the Creation in which man finds himself...