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To answer his questions, Wolfe examines the roots of the architectural profession and emerges with a devastating indictment of...well...virtually everyone, from the theory-obsessed architects to their intellectually intimidated clients. Wolfe has shown us our sins and we may now follow him out of the darkness.
But when the building boom started after the war, Gropius, Le Corbusier and epigones Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Phillip Johnson dominated the profession. So Americans yielded to the wishes of their architectural betters. We had just created the American century, transformed the post-war world into an American...
Sam Cummings is a large, loquacious, twinkly man who is never very far from a joke or an ironic aside. "Human folly," he says, "guarantees the perpetuity of arms trading, the second-oldest profession in the world." Cummings, 54, is intimate with this deadly folly: he is by far the...
La Donna del Lago is Home's seventh Rossini opera. Although she has sung such disparate roles as Carmen and Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, it is with Rossini that she has had her greatest triumphs. In 1964, she first came to attention in the "pants" role of...
- Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm