Word: wright
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...expedition, led by G. Ernest Wright, Parkman Professor of Divinity, uncovered the ruins of the temple which Abimelech supposedly destroyed in his seige of Shechem. The Biblical story of the revolt is narrated in the Book of Judges...
...Dayton's Air Force Museum, the nation's first military pilot, retired Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 80, took a nostalgic look at the 1909 Wright Flyer, then climbed aboard the open-air, pusher-propellered crate. With him was an old colleague, retired Lieut. General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, 83, who in 1910 made the first powered-aircraft flight in Japan, where he is renowned as "the grandfather of flight." "This is my ship," said Benny Foulois proudly, perhaps recalling a memorable day-March 2, 1910-when, as an Army lieutenant, he made his first take off, first solo, first...
...Careful Eye. Unlike Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of Manhattan's spectacular Guggenheim, Architect Johnson was willing to concede that a museum's first function is to display not itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with...
Frank Lloyd Wright once looked with distaste at the sprawl that is Pittsburgh, and gave the city fathers his solemn advice: "Abandon it." Architects with the king-sized imagination of a Wright have always let one corner of the mind dwell on the impossible. Their most grandiose schemes often end up in the wastebasket, either stymied by technology or vetoed by those who regard themselves as more practical (and sometimes are). But the visionary architects go on dreaming of mushroom-shaped houses, glass pyramids and spiral cities. Last week, in a lively show called "Visionary Architecture," Manhattan's Museum...
After denouncing everybody else's skyscrapers, Frank Lloyd Wright in the latter days of his life wished to turn cities into grand parks surrounding a few mile-high office buildings that would lodge the city's entire work force. Each rapier-like 528-story building would have atomic-powered elevators, would accommodate 130,000 people. Philadelphia's Lou Kahn, dramatically ignoring the necessity of rectangular symmetry, modeled a skyscraper that suggests a tottering, concrete Erector set. Other projects offer radical new solutions for transportation and land use: Le Corbusier's plan for a road that...