Word: fredonia
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...best film the Marx brothers ever made. Where their other films confined their revolutionary energies to Florida, the opera house, the racetrack, and so forth, Duck Soup gives the Marxist troika a world--or at least a nation--to win. Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the President of Fredonia; his slogan, an eerie anticipation of Proposition 13, is "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Chico and Harpo are spies for Sylvania, a rival power. (Chico also enjoys a brief stint as a Public Nusiance in Groucho's cabinet). Margaret Dumont is a rich widow who is quite literally Groucho...
THEODORE L. STEINBERG Fredonia...
Moss cut his hair to avoid a hippy image, and scrapped the original name of "Air Liberation" which he thought would sound too political. "Freelandia" was adopted, inspired by the mythical land of Fredonia in the Marx Brothers' movie "Duck Soup...
Another project for the State University of New York, this time for the Fredonia campus near Lake Erie, makes a totally different kind of impression Designed by I.M. Pei & Partners, the strikingly handsome new buildings-smooth concrete structures of unusual shapes-seem refined almost to the point of classicism. Yet the buildings form only part of the architect's real achievement-the reorganization, expansion and enlivening of a dreary college of 1,500 students. Even the site was challenging. Fredonia sprawled over a bleak landscape devoid of trees, natural features or lasting interest...
...outermost playing fields and back again. Then he intercepted the circle with five new academic buildings (a student center, lecture hall, library, administration building and arts center) set along an angular pedestrian "spine." These new buildings gave personality and vigor to the college and landscape, thus resolving Fredonia's great problem of formless anonymity. Moreover, they never turn their backs on their older neighbors; rather the new honor and upgrade the old. It is an architecture of good manners-and should set the tone for future buildings at Fredonia...