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...formally in its Manhattan clubhouse. After dinner the company witnessed the opening of the first Wright exhibition in Manhattan. On the walls were quotations from Mr. Wright's writings. Excerpt: "A good word in architecture is 'clean.' Another is 'integral.' Still another is 'plastic'-one more 'quiet.'" On view were two of his latest projects: an 18-story glass-walled residential tower built on the cantilever principle; a mammoth skyscraper for the Chicago offices of National Life Insurance Co., whose walls involve a minimum of masonry, whose multitudinous windows are accented...
Fundament of the Museum is the collection called Der Mensch ("Man"). Parts of the body are there displayed in plastic, by photographs, in pickle, in transparency, most parts in all four media. Also there are bones. Many a visitor to the Museum last week involuntarily fingered his head when he beheld the Disassembled Man. Fastened to a tall, black board, like memoranda on a bulletin board, are the 206 disjointed bones of an adult. One could actually see what one has been taught but scarcely believes, that the head is made up of a lower jaw and 21 other bones...
...Cities will spread out more and more, working men can have more ground around their homes. Cities had better stop piling up their skyscrapers anyway. Everyone knows the interior of the earth is plastic. It's possible to get too much weight upon the surface. It's bound to make a dent...
...German Plastic Art of 16th Century", Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum...
...supervised intellectual growth rather than its undirected development. At Columbia the pupil is taken to see a hangar full of airplanes which he is encouraged to copy in clay, wax or crayon in the classroom. Under the Dewey method, the child has opportunity for creative expression which the less plastic Montessori equipment does not allow...