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...Shake. Other recent Wright projects: a Dallas hotel which, "unlike most commercial hotels . . .is planned chiefly for comfort and entertainment of guests," and a sports club for the Hollywood hills, featuring vast saucers of concrete, cantilevered out from a central shaft. The lowest saucers would hold a tennis court and a swimming pool. Those who dared to go higher could get a cocktail, or, at the very top, a sun bath. "The construction," said Wright blandly, "would have the same chance in a temblor as a tree with a taproot. The dramatic character. . . is achieved at no sacrifice of either...
...should come, us we feel it will, may those men face their flag who talk so valiantly now of peace . . . Today is the chance for you. No self-interest, no shuffling of the demands of conscience should shake you. Be true to your manhood, to your education, to your youth. The time is now. In three months it may be too late." (February...
...like a drab, a very scullion. Vag cried "ah vengeance" once to shake his mind from his thoughts. What a painful process this conscience is. I'll have to stop thinking. When I've been away from awhile I'll mellow, perhaps I'll even forget, said...
When drinking ale he often retires to a lavatory and scrubs feverishly at his glass to get the bugs off it. He frequently refuses to shake hands. Instead, he extends only his little finger, thus exposing a minimum of his person to bacilli and micrococci...
...novel drives this despondent dogma home with such fierce insistence that readers may need a few minutes' reflection to shake off its spell. But in the end, it will be seen that Green has trapped both Kaspan and Meddow in equally futile obsessions with absolutist quests-the one for absolute freedom and the other for absolute love...