Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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 horizontally instead of vertically. Architect...
...Quiet and almost dull were the Chrysler ceremonies. The Warburg opening achieved drama by the presence of 50 armed policemen, a chain of armored trucks which delivered into the vaults of the bank $850,000,000 in cash and securities...
...PRIVATES WE-Private 19022-Putnam ($2.50). Says Arnold Bennett, booster of books, preferably British: "Her Privates We will be remembered when All Quiet on the Western Front . . . is forgotten." Like the German novel, Her Privates We is a record of personal experiences in the trenches, as the plain soldier knew them. It too is plotless, simple narrative, un-propagandist, unrhetorical. Its author has preferred to remain anonymous. Says "Private 19022": "The events described actually happened; the characters are fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters...
...street again plays a relief role for Molly Stark, cramming the nervous soldiery with essentials and priming them with the finer point sof trench warfare. Last-minute instructions are issued by the tactical division as the coming campaign is planned in the small hours of the morning. All is quiet on the university front...
...three stories in this volume from an ascending climax of quality, so far as this reviewer is concerned, though the publisher's opinion is evidently different. "King Haber" has, perhaps, greater potentialities than either "Schoolmaster Taussig" or "The Patriot", but the quiet tone of the story leaves an impression of dullness rather than the solemn grandeur that is the author's intent. The character of this banker in a small German principality--a man who reaches the position of the Duke's favorite, and himself almost provides the heir to the throne--is a powerful creation, but the presentation never...