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...class that will graduate in June has any unique virtue, it is its unwillingness or inability to cast itself in any heroic pose. A long while ago the pose was of youthful optimism, with graduation speakers inanely observing that "Commencement is not just an end--it is a beginning." In fact, Commencement is just an end. Recently, the pose has been that of the anti-hero, young rebels wreathed in dope fumes end with defusions as grand as ever. Since the smoke cleared, seniors have had hard times taking themselves too seriously. But complimenting your own class on its unpretentiousness...
Venturi's ideas must be understood as representing a revolt against much of contemporary architecture. His book is an attack on those high-handed architects who see themselves as setting standards of architectural excellence. They fill our landscape with imposing, heroic forms which are all too familiar--a Gund Hall, a new Science Center, or a Boston City Hall. Venturi is interested in the sort of architecture that has no pretension to being heroic. He implies that there is nothing to be learned from these self-conscious monuments to good taste. Rather he looks to the more low-brow, eclectic...
Venturi's arguments in the rest of the book for the ordinary--as opposed to the heroic--in architecture as exemplified by the commercial buildings of the strip, are based on the belief that the strip, as well as places like Levittown, ultimately represent the aesthetic preferences of the middle class. And why, asks Venturi, should anyone attempt to elevate a client's value system with reference to Art or Metaphysics? Of course, Venturi knows that an architect such as I.M. pei who caters to elite tastes would never be happy on the strip. However, he assumes that everyone else...
...life in WW 11'S occupied France with a Collection of interview with national leaders, spies and various inhabitants Of the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand. The historical view the film Presents may be fragmentary, even misleading; but the human range covered is Powerfully complete. We not only hear heroic, week, tragic actions explained, but get some inkling of what these actions meant to the rest of the lives of the participants...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, it consisted of an unlikely amalgam of minorities: Southern whites, Jews, "ethnic"* blue-collar workers, blacks and campus-oriented intellectuals. Despite the disparate backgrounds and views of these blocs, the coalition was remarkably durable. It produced 20 consecutive years of Democratic Administrations, survived the virtually unbeatable heroic appeal and victories of Dwight Eisenhower, and regrouped to elect John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Severely split by the riotous Chicago convention in 1968, it began to reunite in the last weeks of that campaign and fell just short of putting Hubert Humphrey in the White House...