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...given form and logic to the skyscraper for the first time. A readable and richly illustrated new book called Architecture Today and Tomorrow (McGraw-Hill; $17.50) takes off from that boast to trace the rise of modern architecture-and the lively rebellion against it among the modernists themselves. A reader will have to look far to find in a single volume a better play-off between the older and younger generations...
...much of ILS. social criticism ever since. In the process, Lewis helped destroy once and for all the U.S.'s lingering cultural provincialism, as World War II destroyed its political isolationism. Yet the satirist's lashing must always be to some extent a self-flagellation. No thoughtful reader of his books can fail to see that Lewis, rebellious, drunken and selfexiled, loved Gopher Prairie, and the U.S., and that he never really left it. His definitive biography is still to be written...
Truce, our reader, a parley now we crave...
Whatever it means, White's chariot swings low over a scruffy imaginary suburb of Sydney called Sarsaparilla. There the reader discovers five moderately interesting people who, after 440 pages of intricately imagistic prose, suddenly turn out to be the principals in a real-life Passion play that finds its climax in an actual crucifixion. The suggestion is that life is the perennial Passion of a recurrent Christ...
...occasional reader of the CRIMSON I found your September 29 editorial tribute to Summer Welles interesting. However I dropped my coffee cup over the fourth paragraph. Are you really suggesting that the "USIA propaganda techniques" are morally or technically comparable with "this era of McCarthy purges"? McCarthy was--in his own way--brilliantly successful for a time. Are you suggesting that USIA is also brilliantly successful and uses McCarthy's methods...