Word: wright
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ward Moorehouse, born in Wilmington, Delaware, on the Glorious Fourth. He grows up to become J. Ward Moorehouse, public relations counsel, and U.S.A. surrounds his story with those of others who enter into his life, and with a variety of historical material: biographies of figures from the period--the Wright brothers, Eugene V. Debs, Rudolph Valentino, Henry Ford, the Unknown Soldier among others--songs, dances, newspaper headlines and stories, stream-of consciousness narrative of actual events...
CEREMONY IN LONE TREE, by Wright Morris (304 pp.; Atheneum; $4), is set in the barren Nebraska plains country, where the author stalks his favorite game -the "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners with souls imprisoned like "buzzing flies" in "God's cocoon." Morris has been compared variously to Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, even Mickey Spillane, but in this, his 13th book, he sounds more like a kind of slick-paper Nathanael West, without that gifted writer's savage humor. His story is wired to the tangled nerve ends of the collection of oddballs and misfits who stumbled...
...metaphysical absurdity to discuss the competence with which a hole is rendered. (Its surroundings will do.) The play is preceded at the Club 47 by A Resounding Tinkle (also an American premiere), a slighter and less interesting drama in which Beryl Kinrose-Wright provides a particularly fine performance...
With the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architecture has been sadly wanting in men who are both poet-visionaries and builders as well. One architect who comes close to filling the role is Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn, 59, a short, wiry figure almost unknown outside his own profession, but whose thoughtful making of spaces provides what many critics consider a whole textbook of new forms...
...when 16 of its 19 plants were idle, revitalized the ailing company. He slashed costs, ramrodded through a diversification program into electronics, plastics, nuclear reactors, rockets and ultrasonics. But in pushing diversification, he let his research and work on products coming off the line lag. Although the Wright turbo compound engine was standard on both the DC-7 and Super Constellation, it proved so unsatisfactory that airlines were not interested in Wright engines for the new jet airliners. Defense business also faded...